Many wildfires burn unnoticed in remote forests and grasslands, far from major population centers. Satellites detect the majority of them, but in many cases, images of the fire from the ground are ...

Recently, we published a data visualization showing tropospheric NO 2 over the Indian Ocean. The effort got us to thinking about how we try to present data in a way that’s easy to interpret while ...

A massive brush fire is threatening one of Australia's premier observatories, and scientists down-under are worried that priceless telescopes and other scientific equipment may be lost to the flames.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A LUNAR ECLIPSE? A lunar eclipse happens when the moon — slowly moving in its orbit around the Earth — goes into the Earth’s shadow. Sometimes it goes through merely the outside, ...

The largest, deepest Women's World Cup has dealt the United States its toughest group in history. The U.S., ranked No. 1 in the world, was drawn into Group D with No. 5 Sweden, No. 10 Australia and No ...

As viewers in anywhere other than Antarctica we are only going to get a partial view and this is about as much as we’ll see from this eclipse. About as far as the moon will cover the sun here in ...

The moon turns red causing a phenomenon known as a 'blood moon', during a total lunar eclipse in Miami, Florida Getty Images of the blood moon during the first total lunar eclipse of 2014 have been ...

To understand the formation and evolution of far-away galaxies, scientists use some of the largest and most expensive equipment on the planet to look back in time. Dr Amanda Bauer, a Super Science ...

My pal Amanda Bauer—aka Astropixie—has been posting a great series of short videos called Sixty Symbols, where scientists discuss the meanings of a given symbol in science, and the story behind them.