There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers are melting at such a rate it’s changing the way the Earth spins, causing it to wobble off ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space on a collision course with our ...

The vernal equinox, marking the start of spring, occurred on March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere. This means the earth is titled on its axis at 23.5 degrees and it ...

Mintz, Y., and Munk, W., Mon. Not. Roy. Astro. Soc., Geophys. Supp., 6, No. 9 (1954). Walker, A. M., and Young, A., Mon. Not. Roy. Astro. Soc. (in the press). Bondi ...

Multiple sunspot groups — 13 in all — speckle the sun on March 16. Astronomers count sunspots to arrive at a better understanding of solar activity and how it affects the Earth.

The Earth is tilted approximately 23.5 degrees off a vertical axis, and because of this tilt, the most direct sunlight is aimed at the Southern Hemisphere during our astronomical winter and at the ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked ...

The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from ... observer and noticed a gradual change of position of about one degree every 72 years, implying a full cycle in 26,000 years.

Downtown Sacramento sits at 38.6 degrees north of the equator and will ... At exactly 2:01 a.m. Pacific Time, Earth's axis will be perfectly vertical and the sun's most direct energy will be ...