The following are some images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—illustrated above—that capture the explosive ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of our Solar System. The planet sizes tested were 1 percent of Earth's mass, ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Whether life could survive on such an extreme world is unknown. On Earth, our seasons are driven by our planet's 23.4-degree ...

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

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...

Obliquity influences the intensity of temperature in each season: greater tilt creates more ... differences between seasons. The mass may have even pushed Earth's orbit closer to Venus and beyond ...

Overall, the Valley will gain over an hour of daylight during the month of February and the length of day will increase over 11 hours.

After a busy week in the National Hockey League, the movement in CP's NHL Power Rankings is significant before the 4 Nations FaceOff.

Although winter may linger a while longer, daylight saving time and the first signs of spring will come to Texas in about a ...