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Why does the sun never set in Norway during summer? Discover the science behind the Midnight Sun and Polar Night. Read this ...
Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar and is celebrated by people all over the world. It marks the ...
If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...
What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...
Excessive groundwater pumping over the past two decades has tilted the Earth’s axis by an alarming 31.5 inches, with this water redistribution contributing approximately 0.24 inches to global ...
NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...
Spectacular displays of the Northern Lights have been seen over recent nights with the potential for more to come.
Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...
including a 100,000 year cycle in the shape of the orbit (eccentricity), a 41,000 year cycle in the tilt of the Earth's axis (obliquity) and a 20,000-year cycle in the "wobble" — much like a top ...
The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...
The iconic rings of Saturn have disappeared but don’t worry, they haven’t gone anywhere. This week, a rare cosmic event called a "ring plane crossing" has made the planet's rings to vanish from ...