Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! NASA has given its ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital mechanics behind where eclipses happen — and don't.

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, ...

El Nino warps weather worldwide. Meteorologists say the natural El Nino cycle is both adding to and feeling the heat of a warming world.

Their observations detected two bright auroral bands near Uranus's magnetic poles, which are lopsided and tilted by nearly 60 degrees. As a result, its auroras sweep across the surface in complex ...

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 ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Nasa astronaut Zena Cardman shares a stunning 60x speed timelapse from the International Space Station, capturing sunset to sunrise during rare manoeuvres. The video reveals lightning, airglow, Moon ...

When Muslims arriving in the UK tried to sight the new crescent Moon, they would often struggle – in part due to a very British problem: the cloudy weather.