An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While ...

Yet, NASA issued a startling warning about the potential consequences of filling the dam. The space agency cautioned that such a massive accumulation of water could slightly alter Earth’s rotation.

Therefore, astronomers might expect that all of the planets in the solar system would spin in the same direction as the sun. "To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it to a ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

A parade of planets will be visible to skywatchers around the globe through the rest of this month and into February.

Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down ... is slowing down is because the Moon exerts a gravitational pull on the planet, which causes ...

Moon along with Mercury; Earth's neighbours Venus and Mars; Jupiter and Saturn will align in a straight line and will be ...