"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

“Getting that to cross the equator, where the Coriolis force is essentially zero, is kind of impossible because it means you ...

I had been fighting a tuna for three hours off the coast of Bermuda when a 16-foot tiger shark appeared out of nowhere.

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have journeyed ...

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

Note: There are minor spoilers for "Jurassic World Rebirth" in the article below Welcome back to Jurassic Park. Well, not really. "Jurassic World Rebirth" doesn't actually take its characters back to ...

Friday marks the start of the summer solstice in the northern half of the globe, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun's north ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The Aquilops is inarguably the cutest of the dinosaurs in “Rebirth,” as we meet a little one who eventually gets named Dolores. This species was only recently discovered, and is a horned herbivore, ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...