Earth’s Rotation Day 2026, observed on January 8, highlights how Earth’s constant rotation shapes day and night, climate, ...

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

New Hubble data reveals 3I/ATLAS is becoming more ordered, showing near-perfect geometric jet patterns that challenge ...

Three symmetrical jets jutting out of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS are showing up in Hubble observations, puzzling astronomer ...

The natural comet interpretation associates the jets with major pockets of ice on the surface of a rotating nucleus. The one ...

The actual phrase “New Year’s resolution” seems to have become common by the early nineteenth century. By the later ...

The images were taken with 170-second exposures using the WFC3 UVIS (F350LP) camera at a central wavelength of 0.5851 micron, ...

It’s strange to think that something as ordinary as summer heat or winter cold traces back to a moment of utter chaos ...

If you have ever heard that Earth will soon start having 25-hour days, it might be right. The idea itself is not wrong.

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand Selva]’s ...

Spring, summer, fall and winter—the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It's easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

On certain trans-Pacific flights, you can "time travel" by crossing the International Date Line. For example, if you want to go from San Francisco to Tokyo, and your flight departs at 5:00 p.m. on ...