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Turns out the best way to understand a hurricane is . . . to fly directly through it. We talk to members of the Air Force and NOAA Corps who take to the skies to gather vital weather data. 

Planets orbit the Sun, and moons orbit planets and other small planetary bodies, but can two planets orbit each other? The short answer to this question is yes, two planets could orbit each other in what is typically called a double planet or a binary planet system.

Over 5,800 exoplanets have been discovered, with more and more being observed almost every day. But what makes these objects planets and not stars? How different are planets and stars, actually?

We have been able to directly measure quakes on the Moon and Mars and refer to them as moonquakes and marsquakes.

Scientists and engineers are trying to use what they do know to create bat-inspired flying machines, but traits like bats' self-cambering stretchy wing skin, skeletal muscles and tiny hair sensors are proving difficult to replicate. 

Scientists and engineers are trying to use what they do know to create bat-inspired flying machines, but traits like bats' self-cambering stretchy wing skin, skeletal muscles and tiny hair sensors are proving difficult to replicate. 

The Moon is pockmarked with impact craters. Everywhere you look, you can see a crater. On Earth, however, impact craters are few and far between, with barely any visible. Why do we see so many craters on the Moon but so few on Earth?

Beginning in the late 1920s, spaceflight enthusiasts banded together into groups known as "rocket societies" to advance their cause. 

A global warning system keeps active volcanoes from shutting down commercial aviation.

In 1935, a squad of U.S. bombers dropped a total of 20 of the 600-pound bombs on the lava channels in the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.