Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter ...

Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

For those north of the equator, the solstice on Sunday, Dec. 21, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. During ...

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers suggest that Earth once had a giant, ...

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

But in a social media post announcing the move late on Tuesday, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

A massive geomagnetic superstorm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s plasma shield collapses and slowly rebuilds under extreme solar pressure. Using the perfectly ...

Taking high-resolution pictures of stars in space has been considered a serious struggle for decades, and a new discovery was ...

The annual Geminid meteor shower is set to peak this weekend, offering stargazers a chance to catch what is often one of the year’s best and most reliable displays of shooting stars. The meteor shower ...