It's a perfect storm of factors - including climate change, development, past forest management policies and current firefighting practices, says forestry expert.

In space, dust comes from comets and exploding stars. It can form planetary rings, drive global weather patterns and even form the seeds of new planets.

Asteroid on a collision course with Earth? These astronomers will likely see it first. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies - now entering its 3rd decade - makes over 90 percent of near-Earth asteroid and comet discoveries. Here's how and why they do their work.

In the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria, researchers document how catastrophic storms can be agents of natural selection, influencing how species evolve.

#5 If you flip a shark over, it goes into a trance.

When the Apollo astronauts returned from the moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive particles, but how toxic is it for humans?

Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier is melting, thanks to warming waters from below. What’s more, a recent study has discovered a volcano beneath the glacier.

Last week, scientists announced the 1st known source for ghostly, high-energy neutrinos. The source is a blazar, a billion-solar-mass black hole 3.7 billion light-years away. The discovery establishes a new way to study the universe.

Mysterious 'Oumuamua is the 1st confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system.

Here's how and why astronomers plan to aim the Hubble Space Telescope and several ground-based telescopes toward Pluto around the July 12 Earth transit.