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…

Several years back, Jan Null (a forensic meteorologist) was asked to testify in a case where a child died after being left in a hot car. His job involves looking back at and piecing together all sorts of weather-related incidents…

A few weeks ago, on June 17th, astronomers spotted an explosion in the night sky that surprised them. And they still don't know what it was. They estimate that it originated from a galaxy that's about 200 million light years…

Yes it's famously hot here in Columbia, but we take a back seat on the record that was set Tuesday in Oman. Oman is a country in the Middle East that boarders Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. A…

The bright "star" next to tonight's full moon is not a star at all. It's the planet Saturn. Although they will appear close together in the sky, the moon and Saturn will be roughly 745 million miles apart. Let's hope…

A few weeks ago I was on the golf course and we could hear thunder getting closer. I told the rest of the foursome that it was time to go take shelter because lightning was moving in. The response that…

Five years ago, scientists thought they had found the coldest temperatures near the south pole at 135 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit). But the data that produced those findings has been reevaluated and it turns out that scientists now think the…

The bright "star" near the moon this weekend is no star at all. It's the planet Jupiter. The planet is the largest in our solar system - roughly 1300 earths would fit inside Jupiter. It takes 12 years for Jupiter…

Today is the summer solstice - the first day of summer. That's when the sun's rays shine directly over the Tropic of Cancer, which is the northernmost point where the rays shine directly overhead in the entire year. On this…