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

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at ...

A group of U.S.-based physicists has presented experimental evidence suggesting that electricity can be generated from the ...

The Northern Hemisphere is welcoming Spring 2025 on March 20, also known as the vernal equinox. The jump into spring has come ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of these parameters' cycles and clues hidden at the bottom of the ocean.

While spring officially starts on Thursday morning, wintry weather and below-average temps are the name of the game for days ...

The vernal equinox, which occurs at the start of astronomical spring, is when the sun's rays equally shine on both of the ...

Earth is tilted on its axis, meaning that sunlight falls unevenly on the planet over the course of the year. This tilted axis is why Earth has seasons, and it creates the planet's three major ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

SOME preliminary results have been obtained from an investigation being undertaken at College, Alaska, concerning the correspondence of the Earth's magnetic ... magnetic north axis loop antenna ...