'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has turned a routine solar system flyby into a natural physics experiment, with a wobbling jet ...

Earth's rotation on its axis is the fundamental reason for the cycle of day and night. As our planet spins, one side faces ...

On any given day, the Earth takes roughly 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, to complete one rotation around the sun - however, since 2020, the planet has ever so slightly begun moving faster. The increased ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Cars, planes, trains, and even rockets all can move pretty fast. Fast is a relative term though. At this moment, we are moving pretty fast, too, even if you're just sitting down!

Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you’re along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways. First, ...

Spring has officially sprung in North America, bringing with it the promise of warmer days. At precisely 5:01 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 20, the sun's rays fell directly on the equator, marking the ...

One of the largest sunspot formations of the past several years is currently visible on the sun. The group, catalogued as AR 4294-4298, is so large that several of the dark regions exceed the Earth’s ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is forcing astronomers to rethink how structure and motion emerge on the grandest ...