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

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 ...

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 ...

The Moon, our constant celestial companion, is drifting away from Earth at a slow but measurable rate. According to a detailed study published byThe Conversation, the Moon is moving approximately 1.5 ...

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

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