The Earth's North Pole isn't just one place, it's actually two. Now, a researcher has revealed that one of those North Poles ...

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year, and it officially marks the start of winter.

While the solstice marks the shortest day of the year, the amount of daylight we gain in the first week afterward is ...

ALMATY — Ancient geoglyphs in Kazakhstan’s Turgai Trough in northern Kazakhstan once again demonstrated their connection to solar cycles on Dec. 21, the day of the winter solstice, reinforcing ...

Sunday, Dec. 21, had the least daylight of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In Washington, D.C., there were 9 hours, 26 minutes, and 18 seconds of daylight, about 2 seconds less than the day ...

"While Earth completes a single rotation on its axis, the ISS orbits the planet 16 times," Sergey Kud-Sverchkov said ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how right-handed molecules in our cells can give rise to cells that are not symmetrical ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...