Picture yourself standing at the Geographic North Pole with a compass in your hand. You'd expect that trusty needle to point ...

This dramatic-sounding phenomenon is a naturally occurring component of the Earth’s atmosphere that can play a huge role in ...

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The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing the first-ever ...

"Every holiday season there is a mass migration of humans towards home and family. We use many tools to help us navigate back to the places we’re from – from ...

Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

As we travel from Mars’s equator toward the planet’s northern regions, we arrive at Coloe Fossae. This landscape is characterized by long, shallow grooves that cut across an area filled with steep ...