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

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

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

All eyes on the Sun's south pole A collage shows the Sun's south pole as recorded on March 16-17, 2025, when Solar Orbiter was viewing the Sun from an angle of 15° below the solar equator.

A space probe has delivered world-first images of the Sun's south pole—and this is only the start towards deeper solar science.