Weather and climate modelers understand pretty well how seasonal winds and ocean currents affect El Niño patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, impacting weather across the United States ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it passes between the Earth and the sun. Just be warned: It won't be easy to ...

Things are getting hotter and hotter here on Earth, and global warming has everyone panicking. But let us try a wild idea: ...

If you've ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the sun, you might well think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path that brings it much closer to the sun at some times of the year than ...

A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet and its star that are a “mirror image” of the Earth and the sun. Experts from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in ...

For decades, astronomers have debated whether Earth's fate was tied to the sun's. When the star exhausts the hydrogen fuel that powers it about 5 billion years, it will swell into a red giant large ...