The Earth's rotation helps give us this effect. ... The circumference near the equator is about 25,000 miles long, which means the speed for this area to make one 24-hour rotation is 1040 mph.

The Earth's rotation helps give us this effect. ... The circumference near the equator is about 25,000 miles long, which means the speed for this area to make one 24-hour rotation is 1040 mph.

Dubai: At precisely 5:42 a.m. local time on Saturday, June 21, 2025, the sun stood directly above the Tropic of Cancer, ...

The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 7.59 p.m. ET (2359 GMT) on June 5, at which time it will pass 2,170,309 miles (3,492,787 kilometers) from our planet, over nine times the ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, or TTVs for short. Let's set the scene.

A super-Earth, Kepler-725c, about 10 times Earth's mass, has been detected in the habitable zone of a sun-like star using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique.

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

The rotations of the Earth have increased in speed since 2020, and as it spins faster than ever, the shortest day recorded ...

Why does China control so much of the rare earth supply? China mines 70 percent of the world’s rare earths. Myanmar, Australia and the United States mine most of the rest.

Before they can be used, the minerals must be turned into magnets, and China produces as much as 95% of the world's rare earth magnets, according to energy research company Wood Mackenzie.

The first full trailer for FX’s Alien: Earth and there’s a huge amount to run through for fans of the sci-fi horror franchise, including what some fans believe is a clear Predator tease.

Asteroids with ‘unstable orbits’ hide around Venus—do they threaten Earth? New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.