Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, a fact confirmed by decades of laser measurements and detailed in a recent ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so ...

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It’s ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so ...

At the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice the upper half of the Earth is at its furthest lean away from the sun — leading ...

A "detection of a wobbling high-altitude jet" in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb intrigued.

In the study, published in Research Notes of the AAS, lead author Thomas Marshall Eubanks of the aerospace firm Space ...