Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeastern United States, is renowned for its extreme weather conditions. This ...

For decades, the Alaska Volcano Observatory has monitored dozens of volcanoes across the state for risk of eruptions. Scientists say Mount Spurr — the closest active volcano to Anchorage — will likely ...

Democratic and Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database on thousands of ...

According to Mount Washington Observatory, warm fog and rain over the weekend ate away at the snowpack. The summit typically ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists ...

A webcam at the summit of Wildcat Mountain caught the avalanche on film, as well as a snowboarder who escaped the slide. The footage, shared on social media by observatory officials, showed the ...

Talk about an adrenaline rush. An avalanche occurred on Mount Washington on Tuesday, according to the Mount Washington ...

Heart-pounding video captured a snowboarder frantically racing for his life as he barely outruns a massive avalanche on a New ...

The instrument was developed by a team at the Mount Washington Observatory, and spent a year on Mount Everest before being ...

A snowboarder avoided a scary situation by outrunning an avalanche on Mount Washington’s Tuckerman’s Ravine in New Hampshire ...