For the second July in a row, Furnace Creek in Death Valley California set the record for hottest month ever recorded on earth. The average temperature for the month of July 2018 came in at 108.1 degrees. That eclipses last…

Asteroids have pummeled the earth for millions of years. But the evidence of any impact doesn't generally last for very long (in geological time). That's because the earth's weather erodes the craters that are caused by the asteroid impacts. However,…

Imagine space-based solar panels that would power us here on earth. Sounds a little "out there" I know. But scientists from California Institute of Technology have come up with a prototype than can collect the rays from the sun and…

This cloud was created by the heat rising up from the Carr Wild Fire in Northern California. It's called a Pyrocumulus cloud. It comes from Latin where pyro means fire and cumulus means piling up. These clouds often produce more…

If you've lived here a long time and have been saying to yourself that it's hotter than you remember, you're right. The average number of days where the temperature is hotter than 95 degrees has gone up considerably in the…

On July 31st Mars will be closer than it has been in 15 years: roughly 36 million miles away. Now that doesn't sound very close, but it'll make Mars appear 5 times brighter than normal. Over the next several weeks…

There's been a lot of press coverage around Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano, but did you know this latest eruption has been going on since 1983. It's brought a lot of attention recently because on May 3, of this year the volcano…

Starting next month the Parker Solar Probe will embark on a 7-year mission to try and uncover some mysteries of our sun. If successful, the research will help to protect us from some of the devastation that the sun can…

Today is the 49th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldin's walk on the moon. As Armstrong took his first step on the moon he uttered the famous words, “That is one small step for [a] man, one giant leap…

Imagine waking up one morning to find this huge iceberg outside your window. That's what happened in this village in northwestern Greenland. Its weight is estimated to be 12 million tons! From bottom to top it's 660 feet with roughly…

Below is a cross-section view of one of tonight's thunderstorms, just west of Lexington. This one reaches to nearly 60,000 feet tall - that's roughly 11 miles into the sky! Thunderstorms produce very strong and chaotic winds all the way…

So you want your mind to be boggled. Here goes. A little background first. There are these really really tiny subatomic particles that are nearly massless called neutrinos. Scientists tell us that trillions of them pass right through us (and…

Columbia is seeing more warm nights. On average, there are now 26 more nights where the temperature stays above 65 degrees than just 40-45 years ago. This trend here in Columbia is expected to continue as the planet continues to…

Yes today was hot in Columbia - hot enough to set the record for the date. It reached 103 degrees, breaking the old record of 102 set back in 1993.

To find out how far away lighting is, you simply count the number of seconds that pass between the flash of lightning and the sound of thunder and then divide that number by 5. This works because light travel so…

We here in South Carolina had a front row seat to the total solar eclipse last August. If you're looking forward to the next one in the U.S., you only have to wait 5 years and 9 months. On April…