Science

A heat dome forms when a high-pressure system parks over an area and physically forces rising warm air back to the ground, causing compression heating.

Montana and Idaho are facing up to 16 inches of snow and 55 mph winds in a rare June winter storm, just as the East Coast braces for a 115-degree heat dome.

Chinese engineers are attempting a first-of-its-kind "anchor-and-attach" landing on Earth's quasi-moon on July 4, aiming to drill 100 grams of rock that may be a lost fragment of our actual Moon.

The National Weather Service has issued rare June Winter Storm Warnings for central Idaho and southwest Montana, with up to 12 inches of snow expected to bury mountain passes this weekend.

Marine biologists have identified the 10th species of walking shark in Papua New Guinea, an extraordinary creature capable of surviving in low-oxygen tide pools for up to two hours out of water.

Earth's seasons are caused by a permanent 23.5-degree planetary tilt, not by our distance from the Sun. Here is exactly how solar angles dictate our climate.