CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Rainfall is increasing in the tropics across the world with the rise attributed to more big thunderstorms, new research by an Australian-led team has found.

The 1.6 million pound boosters of NASA's new flagship rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) filled the test faculties in Promontory, Utah on Wednesday, with their propellant heating up to just abou

It's March. It's freezing. And there's half a foot of snow on the ground. When is this winter going to end?

A new study suggests that increases in atmospheric CO2 could intensify extreme droughts in tropical and subtropical regions -- such as Australia, the southwest and central United States, and southe

From the ground on Cape Legoupil in the extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever.

A mesmerising time-lapse of the world's rainfall and snowfall over the past year is being used by Nasa to track the factors behind climate change.

Earth has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 35,000 square kilometres since 1979, a new NASA study has found.

Amid growing concern about global weather patterns, a rocket roared into space Saturday carrying a NASA satellite that will give scientists new tools to forecast weather, track drought and monitor

A Pew Research Center survey, released last week as part of a broader report on science and society, found that only 50 percent of Americans believe that humans are mostly responsible for climate c