As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

Did you know both the astronomical first day of spring and Easter Sunday are tied to the spring equinox? How they relate, ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during their period of maximum tilt as seen from Earth.

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

The events have been marked and celebrated around ... sun’s warmth and light fall unequally on the northern and southern halves of the planet. During the equinox, the Earth’s axis and its ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

Astronomically speaking, however, the Earth’s equator is aligned directly with the Sun ... around our star. The Earth is tilted approximately 23.5 degrees off a vertical axis, and because of ...

The solstices mark the times during the year when the Earth is at its most extreme tilt ... orbit. As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle. For most of the year, the Earth’s ...

Spectacular displays of the Northern Lights have been seen over recent nights with the potential for more to come.