Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought - ...

Earth's obliquity is 23.4 degrees, but over history it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees approximately every 40,000 years. Precession refers to the "wobble" of this rotational axis.

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...

The vernal equinox, marking the start of spring, occurred on March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere. This means the earth is ...

Space technologies like satellites underpin the U.S. defense apparatus by enabling navigation, intelligence gathering, and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists confirm the celestial lights on one of the most mysterious planets in our ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.

Spring 2025 technically begins at 5:01 a.m. Eastern time that day as the sun moves directly over the Earth’s equator — the central line between the North Pole and the South Pole — bringing almost ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...