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 ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight in the last week with ...

Earth is expected to spin more faster in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On July 9, 2025, Earth is ...

Astronomers may have found the perfect Mars base location, and it's right next to a huge deposit of frozen water.

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite data from 2003 to 2022, researchers from Duke University and the Georgia ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to past life.

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.