The Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. But the lack of sunlight can have a ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

The Army activated a new Western Hemisphere Command, bringing U.S. defense missions and South America-focused forces under ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A panel of federal judges upheld North Carolina’s 2023 congressional map Thursday as the judges continue mulling the legality of the state’s mid-decade redistricting push. The panel has not yet ruled ...

Residents across Illinois shared pictures online of dazzling colors painting the sky early Wednesday morning as the northern lights came into view. Those who missed it may be able to view the ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Lucky night owls across the United States had the chance to ...

Did you spot the Northern Lights in the sky last night? Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday, Nov. 11 for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights. An ...

Vivid auroras lit up skies across North America and Europe as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest this solar cycle, rattled Earth's magnetic field. A severe (G4) geomagnetic storm lit ...

A geomagnetic storm made the aurora borealis visible across a swath of the United States again on Wednesday, illuminating the skies as far south as Arizona. By Nazaneen Ghaffar and Amy Graff Weather ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A surge of solar activity may send auroras south Thursday night, giving skywatchers in Northeast Ohio a rare chance to see the northern lights. Forecasters at the National Oceanic ...

New research reveals that Earth's Northern Hemisphere is growing darker faster than the Southern Hemisphere is. Bill Anders, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Earth has been dimming for decades, ...