Elon Musk's launch of astronauts was scrapped because of a storm, just 17 minutes before liftoff

Stormy weather can endanger the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the astronauts on board....

A terrifying video shows BA plane aborting its landing during UK's 'storm of the century'

A British Airways flight was forced to make an aborted landing attempt at Heathrow...

Stunning images from space reveal the shocking extent of Australia's bushfire crisis

Australia's fires have lasted for months, burned millions of acres, and belched out a...

The bushfires in Australia are so big they're generating their own weather — 'pyrocumulonimbus' thunderstorms that can start more fires

The "front" between the calm air outside the fire zone and the stormcloud is so sharp...

Australia's heat wave is so bad a dehydrated koala flagged down a cyclist for water

Cyclist Anna Heuseler filmed a koala drinking her water just outside Adelaide in southern...

Australia just recorded its hottest day in history, capping a year of extreme temperatures around the world

Australia's average temperature on Tuesday was 40.9 degrees Celsius (106 degrees...

Look: an animated map shows what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

Sea levels have been rising at a greater rate year after year.

From a toxic Ethiopian desert to a fiery Hawaiian volcano: These are the 10 most extreme places on Earth

From Ethiopia's Danakil Depression to Antarctica's Vostock station, some places on earth...