Earth's axis — the invisible line around which it spins — is bookended by the north and south poles. The axis tilts, and thus the pole shift, depending on how weight is distributed across Earth's ...

The Earth’s orbit around the Sun is slightly elliptical, causing our planet’s distance from the Sun to change throughout the ...

Earth tilted, but it had nothing to do with weird space phenomena and everything to do with how people are pumping groundwater and shipping it across the planet, a study found. The findings of a study ...

The New Year would begin with our planet being closest to the sun, raising queries about the cold weather and no heat despite ...

The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over and... It wouldn’t be the ...

The axis of the Earth intersects the planet at the magnetic pole, and Earth's poles are known to wander. They can even flip. There are various possible reasons, which we don't fully understand, why ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. On July 5, our planet reaches its farthest point from the ...

The most interesting thing in the sky for me last month was seeing the most intense hailstorm with the largest hail I have seen since moving to Durango over twenty-five years ago. I can assure you ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Earth has seasons due to the tilt of Earth's axis, which is a line through the south to north pole. The Earth's axis tilts towards and away from the Sun's rays as it travels in a ...

With its long days just itching to be spent by water doing nothing, summer really can be an enchanting season. As Jenny Han wrote in the young adult novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty”: “Everything ...

The winter solstice – which marks the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere – is Tuesday. The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth. The Earth's tilted axis ...