The soonest total eclipse will be August 12, 2026. It will only be visible in a sliver of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and ...

Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's ...

Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973. Earth will complete a full rotation in slightly less ...

Scientists said minimoons are small, rocky fragments that temporarily orbit Earth before eventually moving on to circle the sun. They're usually less than 6.5 feet (2 metres) in size and can originate ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

Humans have made profound changes to the Earth. The resulting societal challenges of the Anthropocene (e.g., climate change and impacts, renewable energy, adaptive infrastructure, disasters, pandemics ...