A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

Leader, columnist Orville Moe, writer of “In a science-minded world, a reason to thank God,” says: “… thank God for all his gifts to us on this small and insignificant planet ...

Today it is almost midway between the equator and the poles and raised by the Rocky Mountains. However, 661 million years ago was a different matter. Then the area was relatively flat and located ...

The chain of crater locations all hugging the equator are consistent with a debris ring orbiting Earth, scientists say.

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

The Earth is round, so it does not have a fixed center like a flat surface. However, some countries are closest to important ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...