The Three Gorges Dam, China's colossal hydroelectric marvel, stands as a testament to human engineering prowess. This massive ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

The gas giants in the outer solar system are the homes to ring systems today, but almost half a billion years ago, our planet ...

Many of these life-forms do have biorhythms, synchronised to stimuli other than light. Naked mole rats spend their entire ...

In fact, within the next few years the time nerds of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS ... This caused an acceleration in the planet’s spin, an effect familiar to skaters tucking ...

This makes it possible to detect planets as small as the Earth orbiting ... which they attributed to either the star's rotation or to events at its surface or in the surrounding environment.

What we all know as "ice" can take up to 20 different forms. One type, superionic ice, only exists deep inside planets called ...

This makes it possible to detect planets as small as the Earth orbiting around small ... which they attributed to either the star’s rotation or to events at its surface or in the surrounding ...

Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees relative to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun, which helps give Mars seasons similar to those on Earth. Whichever hemisphere is ...

The science of these objects becomes more apparent when we consider planetary rotation. For this reason, we use shorter sub-exposures so as not to capture blur as each planet rotates. 'De-rotation ...