The planet that appears so steady beneath our feet is, in reality, subtly reorienting itself in space. As ice melts, oceans ...

For many kids, the combination of good weather and lack of school obligations makes summertime synonymous with good times. Three solid months of freedom, soaked in the Sun, without adults looking over ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of about 98 degrees. Recent studies suggest Uranus might be tilting even more, ...

There are plenty of interesting things about Uranus. Its season lasts as long as its day, it’s the second least-dense planet, and it has a collection of 27 moons. But maybe the most puzzling fact ...

In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the ...

A recent study published in Science examines how thin channels inside impact craters on Mars could have formed from Martian gullies, which share similar characteristics with gullies on Earth and are ...

According to our best understanding of Earth’s climate, the global average temperature has increased significantly over the past ~140 years: the amount of time for which a reliable, direct temperature ...