Fair warning: Four planets start their move into retrograde this week ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Here's what to know about the length of day and what it means for you. How much does the length of day vary? In the past 130 years, the variation in length of day has ranged a couple ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Severe thunderstorms will head east by Saturday, impacting eastern Michigan and parts of northern Indiana. Rain from 1 to 2 ...

Skywatchers will see the bright planet Venus appear about three degrees above the orangey star Aldebaran while the glittering Pleiades star cluster hovers just above.

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space ...

We saw something similar when Hurricane Harvey dumped as much as 60 inches of rain on parts of Texas in 2017 and when Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina last year—and co ...