Imagine a massive celestial body colliding with Uranus at high speed; this impact could have 'overturned' Uranus, causing its ...

As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving ...

Fall equinox 2025 arrives on Monday 22. Find out why the first day of autumn still features a little more daylight than ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Long ago, the Moon was much nearer Earth. Scientists believe a protoplanet collision created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

As atmospheric observations of exoplanets become increasingly precise, it is more important than ever to correctly account ...

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...

As with equinoxes, solstices are associated with Earth's tilt, but instead of daylight and nighttime being even, the days and nights are at their extremes. The winter solstice is the shortest day of ...

Click through the following gallery and find out the spin on living in a world that never turned again.

When astronomers observe a planet passing in front of its star, the slight dip in starlight reveals a wealth of information.

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...