NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America. His suborbital flight in the Liberty Bell 7 capsule lasted 15 minutes and 30 seconds and reached an altitude of 103 nautical miles.

Saharan dust may be chipping away at the current tropical system, but experts say it usually winds down before August.

The window is narrowing for a new tropical system to emerge from an area of stormy weather located in the central Atlantic and moving toward the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane

While the National Hurricane Center's map is lit up with a tropical disturbance, Saturday's forecast is much more about the heat index.

Patricia Belford is suing Jacoby, who claims he chopped down the greenery that grew between her property and Nantucket's Hummock Pond Road, according to the Nantucket Current.

In its third beach release of the season, the New England Aquarium returned six sea turtles to the Atlantic Ocean following months of rehabilitation for hypothermia-related medical conditions.

The body of an unidentified person has been found floating near the Isles of Shoals off of the coast of New Hampshire in the Atlantic Ocean, police said.

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global temperatures is the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC),

A tropical wave is interacting with a broad low pressure area to produce the showers and thunderstorms in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Long-range computer models continue to show a short and unremarkable lifespan for the system, which would be named Dexter if it managed to make it to tropical storm status.

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet off the southernmost tip of South America, and many factors contribute to how fast they merge together.