Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

Discover which planet is the fastest in the solar system. Learn why Mercury moves at 47 km/s, has the shortest year, and ...

Because this record survived, we know more about ancient Chinese history, the rotation of the Earth, and past solar activity ...

Every second, our planet is racing through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour, yet the air outside the window ...

If warming continues at this pace, coastal and island communities near the Indian, Pacific, and Western Atlantic oceans will ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Simulation results show that Mars, despite its similar size to Earth, has a considerable influence on the Milankovitch cycles ...