The initial Earth Day movement focused on college students, with the date selected being between university spring breaks and ...

The next Full Moon in 2024 is at 6:17 a.m. on Sunday, July 21, and is called the Buck Moon. It's the seventh Full Moon of the ...

More recently, in February 2013, a 20-meter (66-foot) space rock struck Earth near the Chelyabinsk city in ... and it has ...

In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth. An asteroid that will whiz harmlessly past Earth is called 2024 MK ...

An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it.

Entire civilisations have set their calendars by it as it has waxed and ... our planet's spin means that the length of an average Earth day has increased by about 1.09 milliseconds per century ...

Earth's journey around the sun does not take 356 days precisely. It takes 365.242189 days to complete one revolution around the sun. Thus, according to the Gregorian calendar, a leap year occurs every ...

The timing occurs because of the way humans measure time, including the calendar-created idea of a leap year, in relation to what's going on in space between the Earth and the sun. Partly because ...

Every day our planet is sprinkled with fairy dust … or dust from the heavens. On a daily basis, about 100 tons of interplanetary material (mostly in the form of dust) drifts down to the Earth's ...

The sun’s height in the sky each day changes because Earth spins on an axis that is ... s out of this world with our space and astronomy calendar. Astronomers said they had identified the ...

The summer solstice is also considered the start of summer on the astronomical calendar ... solstice or the shortest day of the year. On the winter solstice, the Earth's tilt is its farthest ...

Quirks in the Gregorian calendar ... shrinking each day until the winter solstice in late December. The reason we have solstices, equinoxes and seasons is because the Earth is tilted on its ...