The Earth is always spinning on an imaginary line called an axis. This line goes through the North and South poles. We call this spinning, rotation, and it takes about 24 hours for the Earth to make ...
The day many of us longed for during those short, dark, cold winter days is on its way. Sunday, June 21, is the longest day ...
A stream of fast-moving solar wind is on track to reach Earth by Tuesday evening, and if conditions break right, residents of ...
The most impressive feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, a vast, multi-ringed crater over 800 miles across, which is ...
Utqiagvik has entered its Midnight Sun period after the season's final sunset on Saturday. The 84-day stretch of continuous daylight reflects the extreme seasonal shifts caused by Earth's axial tilt.
When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the sun is a ...
A wide gap in the sun’s magnetic field is blowing a river of charged particles straight at Earth this week, and the result is ...
May’s flower moon rose in twilight on Friday, setting the stage for a rare second full moon — a blue moon — later in the month.
The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...
Read on to find out what's up in the night sky tonight (planets visible now, moon phases, observing highlights this month) plus other resources (skywatching terms, night sky obser ...
We look at some of the major recent and upcoming science and technology achievements made possible by Indian talent.