Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, not Everest, is the closest point to space due to Earth’s equatorial bulge and unique shape.

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Any Chicago Cubs trade for Tarik Skubal is dead upon arrival. Skubal would cost the Cubs young players like Cade Horton and Matt Shaw, and they can't afford to part with their future.

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

Digesting the moments, memories and history lessons from a Game 7 — and World Series — that kept us riveted from start to ...

Jupiter is still a month from opposition, rising about 9 p.m. in the NE as November begins, and right after sunset by Thanksgiving. Saturn is the only planetary highlight in the evening now, in ...

Mercury switches from the evening to morning sky this month, while the giant planets dominate the night. The moons of Jupiter ...

The Blue Jays will fly home with the most unlikely prize in their possession: A 3-2 World Series lead and two chances to finish off the defending champion Dodgers inside Rogers Centre, where hearing ...

Paul Sirvatka, a renowned meteorology professor at the College of DuPage, is retiring after 38 years of teaching, during which he founded the first undergraduate storm-chasing program in the US, ...