The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

Earth's rotation is slowing down, making each day longer than before—Here's why it's happening A team of researchers has linked Earth's slowing rotation to the Great Oxidation Event, which made ...

Scientists Turned the Earth’s Rotation Into 17 Microvolts of Electricity. That Could Be Revolutionary. In trying to solve Earth’s climate problem, the answer might be Earth itself.

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com ...

First, notice that in this half-month the moon starts on the far side of the Earth and ends up closer to the sun (that's half an orbit around Earth). Second, at no point does the moon's path bend ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a ...

Earth’s axis is tilted by 23.44 degrees relative to its orbit around the Sun. Imagine Earth’s orbit as a flat frisbee with the Sun in the middle and Earth as a ball on a stick going around the ...

An animation showcases how the seasons change with Earth's orbit around the sun. Earth's axis tilt causes very specific weather patterns and daylight during the course of a year.

Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our ...