While the weather is still warm almost everywhere and the leaves have yet to turn, fall is almost here. The official arrival of the season is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern ...

As of Tuesday, Sept. 16, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 28% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A massive, butterfly-shaped hole has opened in the Sun's outer atmosphere, sending high-speed solar wind directly towards our planet and increasing the likelihood of geomagnetic storms and widespread ...

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version ...

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

The NOAA GOES-18 and GOES-19 satellites saw a solar eclipse as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse ...

The equinox occurs at the same moment wherever you are on Earth but what is it and when does it take place? Chris Fawkes has ...