The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the planet's surface to center of the Earth, and to the fact that the Earth spins.

As global heat records are obliterated, scientists conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer. It is made of solid rock and sits on top of another layer, called the mantle. The mantle flows and stretches like bubble gum, while the crust above ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...

It’s not specific to those dates, but six planets are now in the night sky, four of them visible to the naked eye. Sky chart showing the planetary lineup visible after dark in January 2025.

This rare event offers a chance to witness something immensely spectacular, and here are some lesser-known facts about why this Planet Parade is such a big deal. The Planet Parade of 2025 is a ...