A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is truly a remarkable world. It has a thick atmosphere as well as rivers, lakes, and seas ...

For thousands of years, scientists have known that the Earth is tilted on its axis. In addition to this steady tilt of 23.5 ...

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar ...

A team of Chinese astronomers has discovered a binary star system, comprising a millisecond pulsar and a helium-rich ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...

We can easily see this “precession” effect with a spinning top. As the top rotates on its axis, it eventually slows down and begins to wobble. The axis about which the top spins no longer points in a ...

Polaris has long guided travelers with its fixed spot in the night sky Earth's axis points to Polaris, making it a vital ...

Earth’s rotation is slowing, and 25-hour days may be our future. Lunar drag and planetary shifts are stretching time—forcing ...