A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

Aa Aa Aa Sunlight is the ultimate energy source for virtually all life on Earth. This energy is harnessed ... but occurs in nature in varied combinations that meet the distinct challenges ...

When we see the Sun moving across the sky during the day it’s because the Earth is spinning, not the Sun. Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s ...

THE distance of the sun from the earth or, speaking more correctly—for the distance is, of course, variable—the semi-major axis of the earth's orbit, is the most important constant in astronomy.

The cloud cover isn't what it used to be, and scientists say it is helping fuel Earth's hottest temperatures on record.

"If it's possible in nature, we should be able to utilize similar effects in artificial systems." Sunlight-powered lasers ... or even to Earth. At the receiving site, the energy from the laser ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...