The annual alpha Capricornids, the Southern delta Aquariids and the Perseid meteor showers are all currently active ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

The Southern Hemisphere’s eddy-driven jet (EDJ), a critical force shaping weather patterns across South America, Southern ...

Scientists have traced the shifting and strengthening Southern jet stream to global warming and other major climate drivers.

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Jet streams are often referred to as the "motor" of global weather: High-altitude wind currents steer areas of high and low ...

The bright novas V572 Velorum (left) and V462 Lupi (right) are currently visible in the southern hemisphere night sky. | Credit: Eliot Herman Not one, but two exploding stars are currently visible to ...

The Southern Hemisphere has a stronger jet stream and more intense weather events. Ideas had been circulated, but no one had established a definitive explanation for this asymmetry.

With temperatures rising worldwide, scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...