Professor Iain Stewart explains how the temperature of the earth is affected by its orbit round the sun, and the tilt of its axis. This was a theory put forward by James Croll. Professor Stewart draws ...

Roscosmos said that Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on Friday broke the old record of 370 days, 21 hours and 22 minutes, ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on the International Space Station for 15 weeks. They were only supposed to be ...

During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence ...

Academy Award and Grammy winner Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is set to direct the definitive feature documentary about Earth Wind & Fire.

This week, meet a “scuba-diving” lizard, marvel at a spacecraft’s longevity, explore hidden physics in a painting, unravel the origins of a “lost prince,” and more.

The Star Trek franchise has traveled back in time on several occasions but the characters are unconcerned about disturbing ...

Sinkholes are fairly common, due to collapsed caves, old mines or dissolving material, but the circumstances in South Dakota ...

The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways ...

A coastal flood advisory will be in effect along New Hampshire's coastline Saturday afternoon. Minor coastal flooding and ...

Astronomers and sky watchers have their fingers crossed that an approaching comet could put on a nighttime show on Earth next ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is headed to Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, an endeavor to see if the world harbors the ...