Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Humanity has always lived with risk, but for most of history those dangers were local, temporary, and survivable. What has changed is that our technology, our numbers, and our impact on the planet now ...

In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...

Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages NCAR, released a ...

The Trump administration announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Scientist, biochemist and a historian and philosopher of science, Harriet Rix presents trees as agents of change.

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's ...

I’m going to peel back the curtain. I was seated in a theater’s auditorium, 3-D glasses on my face, as an advanced screening of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” began. From the start, I was distracted by the ...