I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant herbivore one of the most recognizable dinosaurs to me as a kid. But for ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

Applications of ferroelectric films critically depend on their polar ordering, which is highly sensitive to the film size and substrate constraint. Previous studies have revealed a much enhanced ...

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, and Venus.

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Imagine a giant planet drifting far ...

Is It True Earth Used To Take 420 Days To Orbit The Sun? You might have seen the claim online, and it’s at least partially right, but it's not the only other number of days Earth has had.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before ...

The bold question-askers at What If reveal what makes Neptune’s atmosphere so wildly unforgiving. California Democrats stage internal war over Gavin Newsom's late push to build more housing I ...

After successfully entering Earth’s atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost "This partial success reflects both ambition and the inherent risks of innovation." ...

Pluto is inside Neptune’s orbit for a whopping 20 years. There’s also a period in its orbit when it’s actually closer to the sun than Neptune because of its shape. “Pluto’s orbit is very elliptical ...