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 visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...
Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...
So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...
Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.
All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” NASA's Jamie Jasinski said. "The Sun is ...
Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept. 18) to see live views from the organization's robotic telescopes located ...
A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...
CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in SpaceX’s ...