Mintaka, the top/right most among the trio of stars in Orion’s belt, rises due east. Because Orion is on the celestial equator, an extension of Earth’s equator that also divides the sky into two ...

Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped the planet’s history, influencing evolution and ...

The Red Planet and the moon visit the Cancer constellation, the Crab. The moon and Mars will share a close approach in the ...

The entrance of Neptune into Aries in 2025 is an instrumental part of the astrology that will define a new era.

The researchers have based their hypothesis on the positioning of nearly two dozen impact craters -- all placed within 30 ...

The aurora, a celestial display of vibrant lights, occurs when solar wind particles collide with Earth's atmosphere.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

“It’s statistically unusual that you would get 21 craters all relatively close to the equator. It shouldn’t happen ... the ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the force depends on the size of the object and how fast it’s spinning—bigger ...

evidence has been found which indicated that the Earth was covered by giant glaciers till the equator millions of years ago.

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Scientists from Penn State University have proposed a radical new theory for the Moon's origin which overturns the popular ...