Extreme weather events have caused devastation in a number of U.S. regions this year. Here are some of the most harrowing photos of that damage.

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has received this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his image ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a huge weak spot in the geomagnetic field off South America, has expanded and sprouted a lobe in ...

A rat-shaped indent on a Chicago sidewalk went viral early last year, with troves of people venturing to the hole bearing ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the ...

A new AI tool reveals that Campi Flegrei experienced more than 54,000 earthquakes between 2022 and 2025. By mapping these ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

First spotted decades ago but largely forgotten, a newly named form of diabetes stems from undernutrition and is thought to ...

Three-quarters of the world's drought-prone areas are at risk of extreme water shortages — known as "day zero droughts" — ...

Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your ...

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age ...

Chunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December. A landslide into a river in ...