Skywatchers in central Florida and southern Texas can witness a rare lunar standstill on Feb. 7, as the waxing gibbous moon ...

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...

The Earth is round, so it does not have a fixed center like a flat surface. However, some countries are closest to important ...

Learn about a planet that experiences winds a thousand times stronger than Earth’s.

Saturn’s other moons orbit over its equator, so the material from this ... That’s where we find ourselves now. Saturn, like Earth, has a large axial tilt that is more than 26 degrees askew ...

New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop varieties that resulted in global benefits to the environment and food system ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

This video identifies the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth, and also where the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the North and South Poles are located on the planet.

A study of volcanic cones near the equator on Mars is challenging what scientists previously knew about when and where water flowed on Mars.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

Earth's magnetic poles are shifting unpredictably, with rapid drifts and weakening fields raising questions about a possible future reversal and its global effects.