Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound during a 24-mile leap through the stratosphere more than a decade ago, died in a crash ...

Explore the coldest places on Earth, where nature's frostbitten extremes offer a fascinating glimpse into the planet's most unforgiving climates.

For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

According to an updated list compiled by Stacker, the most extreme temperature ever recorded in Texas was 120 degrees in Seymour in 1936, and -23 degrees in Seminole in 1933. Here's what Stacker had ...

According to an updated list compiled by Stacker, the most extreme temperature ever recorded in California was 134 degrees at Death Valley's Greenland Ranch in 1913, and -45 degrees in Boca in 1937.

NASA has released remarkable video captured during the Parker Solar Probe's record-breaking 2024 flyby, offering the closest ...