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The record El Niño has not bailed California out of its drought woes. If the state doesn't get hit by several storms soon, the situation will grow more dire.

January of 2016 saw the largest temperature anomaly Earth has recorded since at least the late 19th century, NASA found.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death makes it more likely that President Obama's global warming plan will be upheld.

"We can observe the universe in this new way; not using light, but using gravity."

So long, Philae, and thanks for the memories.

The extreme cosmic crash sounds oddly like a chirp.

One of the coldest air masses in years is going to hit the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Valentine's Day.

Gravitational waves have raised people's hopes for the eventual development of time travel technology.

The biggest astrophysics story in decades - the detection of gravitational waves, was first revealed when journalists spotted a cake.

Nearly 3,000 climate scientists from around the world denounced Australia's plan to slash climate research at the nation's top science agency.

The surprising move to put the plan on hold is a big win for conservatives.

The first-ever carbon emissions standards for aviation were rolled out on Monday, but they are being criticized as weak.

Scientists may have finally found evidence of gravitational waves, confirming one of Albert Einstein's boldest predictions.

Explore a Martian sand dune in a new 360-degree video from NASA.

Decisions made in the next couple of decades about reducing greenhouse gas emissions will determine the severity of global warming -- including potentially catastrophic sea level rise -- for the next 10,000 years, per a new study.

A severe cold snap is set to overtake the eastern U.S. for Valentine's Day weekend.

North Korea is once again rattling nerves on the Korean Peninsula, this time by testing a rocket.

“For the Arctic, this is definitely the strangest winter I’ve ever seen."

What goes up, must come down.

Scientists have named a new, all-black spider found near Folsom, California, after legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash.

Wind and solar generation are skyrocketing in the U.S. as greenhouse gas emissions drop.

Luxembourg just made a big investment in a burgeoning realm of the space industry: asteroid mining.

These are the key questions that scientists are racing to answer in order to halt the spread of the devastating Zika virus.

One of Saturn's rings is less massive and younger than expected, and scientists aren't sure why.

These are the tiny satellites going to space on a huge rocket.