Whatever you think your birth sign is, you’ve got it wrong by 2,000 years Sceptics have long regarded predicting the future, and defining an individual’s personality using the signs of the zodiac as ...

A scorpion-shaped geoglyph mound in Mexico reveals ancient solar alignments used to synchronize agriculture and rituals.

River Cleanup, a global organization dedicated to making rivers plastic free, sponsored 14 events in honor of Call to Earth Day, encouraging volunteers around the world — in Belgium, the Democratic ...

The woman I was talking to seemed very sure of her facts, but they didn’t add up to me. She declared that the axis of the Earth had shifted 6 degrees, and somehow it was the fault of ...

The results of the 250-day experiment were published in the renowned scientific journal Science Advances. Lead author Prof. K. Ulrich Schreiber from the TUM Institute of Engineering for Astronomical ...

Earth wobbles on its axis like a spinning top, a motion called precession. This wobble takes about 26,000 years to complete one full circle. Different stars have served as the North Star throughout ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion. By Katrina Miller This article was originally ...

Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important because it’s the brightest star in the heavens, and ...

Axial Seamount sits under the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles from the U.S. coast. Since 1997, scientists have kept a careful eye on it using instruments that measure pressure on the ocean floor. Data ...

Based on a talk I gave a while back, it’s apparent one of the more difficult aspects of astronomy is the celestial motion and the apparent movement of the stars and our Sun. For one thing, it just ...