The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

For a few days, it sounded like a scene from a disaster movie: a “piece” of the sun appeared to shear away from its surface and whirl around the north pole, leaving even seasoned solar physicists ...

Bogs show a climate shift 15000 years ago. Changing winds shaped rainfall and ocean carbon, and similar wind changes matter ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because icy meltwater from Antarctica reduces ocean surface temperatures in the ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

We take a look at a handful misconceptions about Antarctica, from its alleged populations of bears to its current ownership.

As a triple star system, Polaris provides critical data for studying stellar pulsations and gravitational interactions, ...

Unlike SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, which uses low-Earth orbit satellites around 550km altitude and consumes hundreds of ...

When does winter start and end in the U.S.? It begins December 21, 2025, astronomically, or December 1st meteorologically.

At first sight, the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur could be the work of an installation artist with a line in metaphysical ...

New research reveals for the first time why Europe could gain more than an extra month of summer days by 2100 using climate data from the last ...

Tomatoes may not be vegetables, but did you know that pumpkins are berries? While this sounds like the sort of factoid your ...