Weather Update

Weather conditions will gradually improve for firefighters battling the Cold Springs Fire in Colorado later this week. 

<p>Following storms in the central United States and a surge of heat farther east this week, the weather pattern will flip during next week.</p>

The moon has photobombed Earth again.

For millennia, the Eye of the Sahara was hiding in plain sight. That's because this huge and mysterious geologic formation is hard to spot from ground level, walking around on Earth.

Leaders of the indigenous tribe from Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles say they want to help other low-lying communities around the world cope with sea level rise.

<p>With hurricane season underway in the U.S., we take a look at the most destructive hurricanes from 1940 to 2005.</p>

Super typhoon Nepartak pounds Taiwan, the Philippines and China.

A supernova might have occurred around the right time and at the right distance from Earth to contribute to a minor mass extinction several million years ago.

Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.

Clouds, which act as thermal regulators for Earth, have altered in character and global distribution due to climate change, and could in turn make warming worse, a study said Monday.

Since launching in 2011, NASA's Juno spacecraft has been cruising toward the biggest planet in the solar system. On Monday, Juno performed a nail-biting move that placed it into orbit around Jupiter to explore its cloud-covered atmosphere and interior makeup.

Juno's mission is to answer fundamental questions about Jupiter: How did the planet form, and what does that mean for the formation of Jupiter-like exoplanets in other solar systems?

<p>The moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, may be the only survivors of a giant impact that created many short-lived, but now-absent moons around the Red Planet, a new study finds.</p>

<p>With the drought in California heading into its fifth year, we take a look at the state's dry landscape this year.​</p>

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of a fireworks display blazing up in deep space.&nbsp;

The European tradition of the “grand tour,” particularly active in the 18th century, saw young travelers, primarily male and usually wealthy, heading out across the continent along a well-worn circuit of historic sites.&nbsp;

Three days of rain leaves at least 50 people dead and a dozen missing in the southern Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Anhui (July 4)

Following the recent El Niño event, conditions in the Amazon are drier than the start of any dry season since 2002.&nbsp;

NASA released a new composite video on Thursday (June 30) showing the auroras on Jupiter. The auroras were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and show the same phenomenon that occurs on Earth—the light waves produced by the interaction of the planet’s magnetic fields with its atmosphere. The Jupiter auroras, though, reach intensities over 1,000 times brighter than what happens on Earth.

This political season has focused attention on macro environmental issues such as fracking, renewable energy and drinking water safety.