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On the morning of August 14, Jupiter and Mars will appear close in the sky, an event often referred to as a conjunction. To skywatchers, theyâll appear to be less than the width of the Moon apart despite being hundreds of millions of miles from each other.
Three park visitors from Germany received federal violation notices for vandalizing, defacing or destroying property, the National Park Service announced Friday.
A popular rock formation in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area collapsed on Thursday.
What appears to be an alligator was spotted Sunday near swimmers in Erie, Pennsylvania, prompting authorities to look into the reptileâs origins and whereabouts.
Tropical Disturbance #1 is continuing to organize as it crosses the tropical Atlantic, moving toward the Caribbean. A cloud of Sahara dust is just to the north, but the plume is thinning, and there's a good chance the disturbance will be able to fight it off. The National Hurricane Center has the odds in the high category that the system will develop into at least a tropical depression next week.
A Flash Flood Emergency was issued for the Greensboro, North Carolina, area on Saturday. It comes just days after Tropical Storm Debby caused flooding and tornadoes in the state.
University researchers believe they have developed a technique that will warm the surface of Mars, potentially making it more hospitable to life. The study was recently published in the Science Advances.
Suzanne Flament-Smith said she was walking along the bayfront in a region of the Tampa metro area known as Safety Harbor after Hurricane Debby when she found the message in a bottle. The letter was dated March 4, 1945, which was about two months before the end of World War II in Europe. The war in the Pacific did not end until September 2, 1945, when Japan surrendered.
Tropical Disturbance #1 is a cluster of disturbed weather approaching the halfway point between Africa and the Caribbean. It's raising eyebrows because computer forecast models show it developing into a significant tropical system – possibly a hurricane – near or east of the Bahamas next week.
Debby was downgraded to a post-tropical storm Friday morning, but the flood and severe threat from the storm remain into the weekend.