We examine why the Earth's constant spin goes completely unnoticed by the people living on it. We think about it and then ...

Comet 41P slowed its rotation to a halt and then began spinning in the opposite direction, surprising scientists.

Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

More than 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet may have collided with the young Earth in a cataclysmic impact. The ...

Supercomputer simulations identify stellar rotation as the mechanism driving chemical mixing in red giants, explaining long-observed surface composition changes during stellar evolution.

The James Webb Space Telescope delivers the 1st detailed 3D map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing dramatic temperature ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Seasonal changes are caused by Earth's 23.5-degree axial tilt, not its distance from the Sun. When a hemisphere leans towards the Sun, it receives direct sunlight and experiences summer, while the ...

The parade of planets will be held on February 28, 2026. Six planets will be visible in the evening sky about an hour after ...

Seeing the Earth from space never gets old. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently shared a breathtaking time-lapse video that seems to capture the plan.