Solar flares are a fascinating thing and have a profound effect on what astronomers refer to as "space weather." These events ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send ...

His subsequent success, however, turned into something of a Coleridgean albatross, because he was known forever thereafter as ...

The The Star, Jaylon Thompson looks at how the Royals have done against the other playoff contenders. The Royals are firmly ...

According to modern understanding (the giant impact hypothesis), the Moon was formed when a large object, roughly the size of ...

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See how our seasons come from Earth's tilt and yearly loop around the sun, which changes the ice cover, vegetation, and ...

In fact, within the next few years the time nerds of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS), the body that decides when leap seconds should fall, may need to implement an entirely novel ...

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made ...

An animation showcases how the seasons change with Earth's orbit around the sun. Earth's axis tilt causes very specific weather patterns and daylight during the course of a year. Most places ...