The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected pattern this winter - one that’s made part of the United States the most ...

The Boomerang Nebula holds the record for the coldest known natural place, with a temperature of just -458 degrees Fahrenheit (-272 degrees Celsius), only one degree above absolute zero. Venus takes ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...

The coldest temperature measured with a thermometer was at the Russian station, Vostok, where it was -128 degrees Fahrenheit.

So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely ...

If one thing can be said about the human species, it’s that we are incredibly resourceful. We can survive and put down roots ...

In “The Wild Robot,” Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz, an intelligent droid who must navigate the challenging natural world of ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, ...

As bitter cold grips much of Canada, Saskatchewan has found itself among the most frigid locations on the planet, according ...

As the Vande Bharat Express left New Delhi Station on the cold morning of February 9 and as I was settling in my window seat ...

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...