Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Changing seasons makes some people anxious because they want things to stay the same. They love the cycle of sameness ...

Do you know what causes the seasons? Child: Is it the sun? Maddie: You're right, it does have a lot to do with the the sun. We live on the Earth. Earth is one of eight planets in a group called ...

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

A year is the time it takes to orbit the sun. And we have seasons because the Earth's axis is tilted by 23 degrees. To see how that works we need to speed time up, so a year passes in just ten ...

Ready for winter to wrap up? The good news is the first day of spring is right around the corner. Here's what we can expect ...

The Earth's 23.5-degree tilt is the reason for our seasons as the Earth orbits the sun.

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...

One misconception ‒ at least for inhabitants of the Northern Hemisphere ‒ is that seasons on Earth are a result of the distance between the Earth and the sun, with the warmer months being ...

With subzero temperatures and snow showers under our belts this winter, many Wisconsinites are probably wondering when the season will end.