Polaris, also known as the 'Pole Star' or 'North Star', is arguably the most famous stellar body to hang in the western ...

A groundbreaking study published inGeophysical Research Letters has revealed that Earth’s North and South Poles are shifting faster than ever before, with projections showing a potential shift of more ...

Polaris has long guided travelers with its fixed spot in the night sky Earth's axis points to Polaris, making it a vital celestial compass Axial precession shifts Earth’s pole over a 26,000-year cycle ...

Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important ...

The day has become 0.06 microseconds longer, and the Earth's axis has shifted by about 2 cm due to the Chinese Three Gorges dam. The colossal volume of water changed the distribution of the planet's ...

Every year, the moon moves just a little farther away from our planet. Scientists have calculated the rate at which our ...

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

including a 100,000 year cycle in the shape of the orbit (eccentricity), a 41,000 year cycle in the tilt of the Earth's axis (obliquity) and a 20,000-year cycle in the "wobble" — much like a top ...

Groundwater has been extracted so much that between 1993 and 2010, it’s believed we’ve shifted Earth’s axis by 80 centimetres. Tubewells operate on a planetary scale now — in 2017 ...