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Northern lights might be visible across 18 states tonight

People in 18 U.S. states could see the green or red glow of the aurora in the sk...

"Punk rocker" dinosaur had long spikes, newly discovere...

"Spicomellus is one of the strangest dinosaurs that we've ever discovered," the ...

Village swallowed by the sea 8,500 years ago found off ...

Divers have collected evidence of a Stone Age settlement lost to rising seas aft...

World's first commercial carbon storage facility gets f...

The first commercial carbon storage facility has been inaugurated off Norway's c...

U.S. scientists work to preserve vulnerable species at ...

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered sp...

See Hurricane Erin from the International Space Station

As Hurricane Erin​ hovered over the Atlantic Ocean, the first hurricane of the 2...

Here's what the hurricane categories mean

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale​ rates hurricanes on a scale from 1 to 5.

Examining the meteorite that landed in a Georgia house ...

A meteorite appeared as a fireball seen in several states, including Georgia, wh...

Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art

For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking gl...

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