For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. “The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ...

The shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere has been marked around ...

At the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice the upper half of the Earth is at its furthest lean away from the sun — leading ...

Early December evenings feature Saturn in the northwest, displaying diminished brightness attributable to its greater distance from Earth and a narrowing of its ring system; telescopic observations ...

Matthias Dehling receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccination significantly reduced influenza hospitalizations in the Southern Hemisphere this year. Uptake was ...

W hile the northern hemisphere of Earth makes its way through winter, the southern hemisphere of Mars is reaching the end of ...

This year's flu season in the Southern Hemisphere was weirdly mild. A surprisingly small number of people in the Southern Hemisphere have gotten the flu this year, probably because the public health ...

The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern -- but no one knew why. A new study lays out the first concrete explanation for this phenomenon. Researchers found two major culprits: ocean ...