Imagine drifting through space in a place so empty that you wouldn’t see a single star, planet, or galaxy in any direction.

On Feb. 6, 1933, Oymyakon, Russia, hit minus 90 degrees — one of the coldest temperatures ever recorded where people actually ...

Windchill temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees are a risk to life, forecasters said.

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Residents at a senior living building in Crown Heights say it shouldn’t take a rally to get heat in the middle of a cold snap. During the rally outside the building, tenants showed photos of ...

Book criticism often encourages speed: verdicts delivered briskly, ideas reduced to angles, art pressed into service of an argument. The two books under review here resist that pressure.

Towns across the U.S. vie for the title of 'Icebox of the Nation', but Minnesota's Embarrass Valley holds the cold record ...

The relentless winter of 2025-26 in the East is about to unleash its most brutal cold outbreak yet.

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...