The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

On a shelf next to my desk, I keep the books that shaped how I think about our planet—and how I cover it as a journalist ...

Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...

India's excessive groundwater extraction, 25% of the world's total, is reportedly shifting the Earth's axis, potentially ...

Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates – and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating.

While people go about their daily routines, the planet is in perpetual motion, rotating through its own magnetic field. A new ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

"This gives them an advantage when running around a track counter-clockwise, because it allows for their more powerful leg to ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles could shift up to 89 feet (27 meters) by 2100 as the planet's axis of rotation ...