A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to ...

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Monday, Feb. 23, through Tuesday, Feb. 24, with the aurora borealis ...

We examine why the Earth's constant spin goes completely unnoticed by the people living on it. We think about it and then ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

India's Aditya-L1 mission has uncovered why Earth's magnetic field behaved strangely during recent solar storms. A new study ...

Just days ago the moon traveled directly between Earth and the sun in what was the first solar eclipse of the year, producing ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists observed the ice giant for nearly a full rotation, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first-ever three-dimensional images of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing a chaotic and shimmering world of infrared auroras.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and an ice giant known for its striking blue-green color, caused by methane in its atmosphere. It rotates on its side with a 98-degree tilt, creating extreme ...

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

Of the eight known planets in the Solar System, Mercury is the smallest and closest to our star, the Sun. Mercury has been known since the time of ancient Babylon, in the 14th century BC. Its name ...