Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly ...
A powerful solar eruption created striking auroras in the night sky around the planet on Oct. 10 and 11. See photos.
Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same ... The debris from the breakup then coalesced in a ring around the Equator, a scenario that may be linked to dramatic changes ...
FARGO — The autumnal equinox is at 7:43 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. At this moment, the equator of the Earth will lie in exactly the same plane as Earth's orbit around the sun. A person standing on ...
The research team studied plate tectonic reconstructions for the Ordovician period and noted where 21 asteroids hit on Earth. All these craters are located within 30 degrees of the equator—despi ...
Recently, Professor Yang Xiaoping's research group at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical ...
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...
Starting next week, the moon, Earth’s closest celestial body, will be joined by a new neighbor: a second moon. From Sept. 29 until Nov. 25, astronomers calculate that 2024 PT5— which is what ...