the study analyzed why the tilt increased further in the 17-year time span. It's believed that when the Earth was young, "something big," about the size of the planet Mars, known as "Theia," hit ...

That’s why managing our water resources wisely is ... we may be able to slow down or even change the direction of Earth’s tilt over time. But it would require consistent efforts over many ...

The effect known as 'Russell-McPherron' is down to the alignment of the Sun and Earth around the spring and autumn equinox and means that you are twice as likely to see the aurora in spring and autumn ...

Early in the history of our solar system, something mysteriously knocked Earth slightly off its axis. So today we tilt at 23.5 degrees. But what would happen if we tilted even more? What if Earth ...

So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of sunlight to reach different regions of ...

But the Earth is tilted - so, its spin axis is tilted ... Earth to orbit the Sun is actually closer to 365.25 days. This is why, every four years, we have a leap year. A leap year adds an extra ...