The New Year begins with the nearly full Moon at perigee in the early afternoon. Two days later –– at full Moon –– Earth is at perihelion, its closest point to the Sun.

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Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Curtin University in ...

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches ...

Ten pulse-quickening rites of passage—one in every province, plus a northern wildcard—that test just how unbreakable the ...

A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth, making it appear bigger and ...

A billion years ago, days lasted 19 hours: the balance between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Moon slowed down the Earth ...

Research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution finds the rate of U.S. coastal sea level rise has more than doubled in ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft traced Saturn’s rings and moons, returning some of the most detailed ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a ...