Researchers say they now know why the Southern Hemisphere is so much stormier than its northern counterpart, adding their discovery could help explain future climate change projections. A study in ...

Stormier Southern Hemisphere induced by topography and ocean circulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022; 119 (50) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123512119 ...

The Northern Hemisphere skies may offer many treats for the eyes, but we who live under them often pine for the delights unique to the southern sky. Those lucky southern astronomers get to see the ...

On May 1, Venus' disk spans 36″ and appears 29 percent lit. At month's end, the planet measures 24″ across and the Sun illuminates 49 percent of its Earth-facing hemisphere.

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at the South Pole. In fact, the Antarctic is the only place on Earth where ...

This, despite the fact that the Southern Hemisphere is 80% ocean-covered. Perhaps most important, to us anyway, is that about 90% of the people living on Earth live in the Northern Hemisphere.