Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme ...

The Moon appears unchanging in the night sky, but its movement hides a slow transformation. For decades, scientists have observed that our satellite is gradually moving away from Earth, year ...

If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...

The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

If you're in the right plane, can you start out in daylight and circle the Earth without ever seeing darkness? Sure, you can ...

Dates can shift slightly for equinoxes depending on the year, but it's always around this time in September. The next vernal ...

The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that the Earth’s inner core had a stable, even, and constant rotation below the Earth’s crust. However, with the help of seismic analyses (i.e., studies of ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China is large enough and transports enough water that it affects Earth's rotation by 0.06 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have delivered the first detailed weather report of a nearby rogue world, ...