The new moon of July 2024 occurs today as Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun, known as aphelion. The new moon ...
Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana ...
So why are we all enduring heat waves and summer heat instead of shivering in the cold? Earth orbits the sun in a slight ...
It is the first time that a rare aurora of this kind has been seen from the ground, and it came at a time when the gusts of ...
At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the ...
A 77-square-mile seagrass meadow at the bottom of Shark Bay in Western Australia is both Earth's largest plant and largest ...
Because most things about Earth change so slowly, it's difficult to imagine them being any different in the past. But Earth's ...
Offering a foretaste of what's to come once it is fully commissioned, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has returned the first images ...
All three asteroids were captured by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, a 230-foot-wide (70-meter) radio antenna near ...
The Mojave Desert’s natural furnace is already officially the hottest place on Earth. Now it’s on track to get even hotter.
An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a ...