It rains on the sun, and thanks to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), we finally know ...

New explanation That mystery was cracked by Luke Benavitz, a first-year graduate student at IfA, and IfA astronomer Jeffrey Reep. Their work, recently published in the Astrophysical Journal, adds a ...

The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

Some fifty million years ago tectonic plates crashed and the Himalayas were pushed upwards. The seabed transformed into still ...

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Atlantic water temperatures influence summer rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau, shaping water for Central Asia’s rivers, farms, ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

Tornadoes on the outer edges of a typhoon's spiral rain bands are a severe convective weather phenomenon that occurs on the ...

On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...