In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...

If you're in the right plane, can you start out in daylight and circle the Earth without ever seeing darkness? Sure, you can ... but you'll need plenty of fuel.

Science teachers in a summer physics class at Southeast Missouri State University relied on shadows Thursday to calculate the Earth's circumference during the summer solstice, the longest day of the ...

Lines of latitude are imaginary horizontal lines that circle the Earth, helping measure how far north or south a location is ...

Now it’s up to you, the little green prince with a head like a sideways salami, to travel through time armed with your sticky ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo ...

Actors David Rysdahl and Zazie Beetz wed in 2023 after dating for nearly a decade Samantha Stutsman is a writer and surveillance editor at PEOPLE. Karwai Tang/WireImage ; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Hulu's ...

Dubbed the father of biodiversity, the pioneering author and scientist E.O. Wilson spent his early years exploring the swamps ...

Off the coast of southeastern Mexico, an ocean giant was fitted with a satellite tag for a “record-breaking” tracking study. James Beheshti via Unsplash Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish, and ...

In late September, 40 amateur astronomers and photographers from all over India converged on the tiny hamlet of Hanle, in ...

We’ve managed to discover quite a lot about our Universe from our relatively limited vantage point here on Earth. Many of those discoveries have been worthy of nothing more than an updated entry in ...

The Great Oxygenation Event, which occurred around 2.4 billion years ago, was one of the biggest transformations of our planet. Before it, there was practically no oxygen in the atmosphere; after, ...