Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. December 9: Dione and Tethys trade places Neptune is stationary at 7 P.M. EST, ending its retrograde motion. The ice giant ...
New NASA and ESA images show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS erupting with fresh activity as it races toward its closest approach ...
Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to ...
By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...