Earth Rotation Day was observed globally on Wednesday. The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis which is crucial for defining time and shape of life. Earth rotates on its axis, an ...

Earth's rotation causes day and night, but the revolution (or orbit) of Earth around the sun, combined with the tilt of the Earth's axis, is what causes seasons. "Seasons are caused by the fact ...

Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at the tiny voltage his instruments were detecting. It seemed too simple — ...

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have wondered if Earth’s rotation through its magnetic field could produce electricity.

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...

The first day of spring, or the vernal equinox, is determined by where the Earth is in its orbit around ... making day and night equally long. The solstices occur on the longest and shortest ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

The spring date on which day and night are of equal length ... Newton showed how the Earth’s oblate shape was due to its rotation, and he explained that the gradual change in the time of the ...

The Earth rotates along an imaginary line that runs from North Pole to South Pole. It’s called the axis, and this rotation is what gives us day and night. However, the axis tilts at 23.5 degrees, as ...

When I get stressed, I look into the night sky and allow my mind to roam the infinity of space and time. It helps to get your ...