“Picking up that same object that I’ve been holding so much on the space station and feeling it here on Earth was crazy to me ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

A: Yes. the Sun too rotates about its axis. But unlike the earth, which has a rotation period of one day, the sun has a ...

But a study published in Nature last year suggested that in fact, climate change might be affecting timekeeping in general.

The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet, but ...

Concrete is Earth’s second-most-used material behind water, creating about four times more CO2 emissions than planes. Some companies are trying to revolutionize the industry.