In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System? There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that Earth had started spinning in the opposite direction. The sun would rise in ...

Forecasters are set to lose some of their sharpest eyes in the sky just a few months before Atlantic Hurricane season peaks ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

TO BRING TOGETHER art and technology, LG has partnered with the National Museum of Natural History on a solo exhibit by digital artist Isaiah Cacnio about the beauty and diversity of Philippine ...

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...

Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation, explained. "Ocean and atmospheric models don’t explain this huge acceleration." ...