+ There are day trips from Cape Town to Stellenbosch and Franschhoek winemaking regions and the Western Cape is on the end of ...

In 1965, Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote a song that reached number seven on the US Hot 100 (reaching number one in Canada ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

ESA has announced an official agreement to maintain this access to Guiana Space Centre (CSG) for the next decade, to 2035.

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a ...

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...

Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.