Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

Today, July 22, 2025, the moon is 27 days old and is in the Waning crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 5% illuminated.

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term girlfriend.

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Discover 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet with a reddish hue, rich in water ice, and possibly predating the solar system.

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Earth, like most planets out in the cosmos, famously spins on an axis, but what if it didn’t? What if one day, instead of twirling at 1,040 Miles per hour it just suddenly stopped, coming to a ...

The planet’s spin hasn’t always been this way. Scientists say a day used to be just 19 hours long. Back then, tides from the sun and moon shaped Earth’s rotation.