Meteorological winter runs from December 1 to February 28, which tends to be a better fit for the coldest time of the year than astronomical winter.

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

Extremophile aliens want to stop Earth's rotation in Fantastic Four #6! Can Reed's family save the planet before it becomes a rotisserie chicken?

Venus spins slowly, yet its upper atmosphere races around the planet at roughly 220 miles per hour, a supercharged jet stream ...

Nov. 28 (UPI) -- SpaceX on Friday launched 140 payloads, the 19th mission of the Smallsat Rideshare program from California.

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

While we’re right to be gravely concerned about climate change in Alaska, we can also appreciate that the powerful natural ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

The study showed that Enceldus’ conditions hold the most promise for sustaining life. The research team predicts that the ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.