Earth: The Most Fascinating Planet in the Universe? Even though we live on this planet, there’s still so much we don’t know!

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

On January 25, 2025, the cosmos will present a spectacular event known as a planetary alignment, where all major planets in our solar system ... resonates across the Earth. Such alignments are ...

For Black History Month, here are key facts about the nation’s Black population ... (The Black Hispanic population is not the same as the Afro-Latino population.) You can also read our updated fact ...

North Texans are in for a celestial treat: This month and until late February, six planets in our solar system will be in alignment in the night sky. A planetary alignment, or as it’s known ...

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the ... the Earth's surface, contain close to 20 million tons of gold. From our morning ...

The climax took place mid-January, when the two planets appeared to be just "a couple of finger widths' distance apart" from Earth's perspective, NASA said. (Though in reality, there were hundreds ...

They hope the project will help shed light on some little-explored processes taking place inside our planet's gaseous shroud, including the magnificent northern lights. Some parts of Earth's ...

And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common, according to astronomers ...

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will ... meaning the planets appear close together in the night sky from Earth. These two planets are visible in the southwest sky.Mars ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system ... the imaginary plane containing the Earth's orbit around the Sun.