July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

World-first views of the Sun's poles released - but scientists say best is yet to come The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees below the sun's solar equator to take the images in mid ...

“Getting that to cross the equator, where the Coriolis force is essentially zero, is kind of impossible because it means you would have to have that entire air mass spinning in one direction across ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, in collaboration with NASA, has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's south pole from 40 million miles ...

A local historian’s journey to find out if Mount Rainier lies on the 47th parallel led to the discovery that one of ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted orbit.

It takes the sun’s equator 24 days to complete a rotation. Its poles poke along and rotate every 35 days. Meanwhile, the sun actually has its own orbit.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees below the sun's solar equator to take the images in mid-March - with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA revealing them to the world on ...