What causes an equinox? The Earth orbits the sun, at a tilt of about 23.5 degrees. This means that different parts of our planet receive more or less of the sun's radiation at various times of the ...

Space station astronauts bid farewell to private Ax-4 crew | On the ISS this week July 14-18, 2025 NASA workers plan 'Moon Day' protest on July 20 to oppose mass layoffs, budget cuts.

It was the fourth private astronaut mission funded by Houston-based Axiom Space and the second commanded by veteran astronaut ...

Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced space flier, and rookie crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary ...

For the Northern Hemisphere, Tuesday, March 20, marks the vernal, or spring, equinox — the first day of spring. The National Weather Service shared this image from space of the Earth just before ...

But the equinox makes itself known if you look at the Earth from space. The picture above is from the Russian weather satellite Electro-L. This orbits our planet high above the equator, in what ...

The vernal equinox heralds the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (finally). But have you heard the myth about balancing an egg on its end? Spring Equinox Is Today: Everything You Need ...

As the spring equinox approaches, ... SOURCE NASA, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, Smithsonian and USA TODAY research. Featured Weekly Ad.

The International Space Station got more international Thursday morning with the arrival of astronauts from three countries making their first visit to the orbiting laboratory aboard the private ...

Today is the first day of fall, also known as the fall equinox. and a new amazing animation released by NASA today shows just how the equinoxes and solstices look from the perspective of space ...