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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, a small icy body orbiting Jupiter’s neighborhood, did something astronomers rarely witness ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Earth’s rotation is no longer matching the tidy 24-hour day that our technology assumes. Since 2020, each day has been ...

A fresh analysis of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák observations suggests it abruptly reversed its spin after its last ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

The Earth is apparently halfway through its lifecycle, and this was revealed using an unlikely neighbour in space – and it ...

A total solar eclipse, the first for 2026, will take place today (). Over the years, different cultures — past and present — have put their own spin on this celestial event. In India, a solar eclipse ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, crawls through a day that outlasts its year, and even changes its spin rate in ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

The curious minds at What If explore how Earth would transform if it spun on its side, revealing dramatic shifts in climate, seasons, and the way life adapts to a radically tilted world.

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...