New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Monday, Feb. 23, through Tuesday, Feb. 24, with the aurora borealis possible from northern U.S. states and Canada.

This new series from India Today Science explores the why and how behind everyday phenomena we notice, question, and often ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

In Psalm 90, Moses said, “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to ...

In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese zodiac also rotates between the five traditional Chinese elements—earth, wood, fire, metal and water.

The annular or \"Ring of Fire\" solar eclipse will happen today, February 17, 2026. This celestial event will get a lot of attention around the world, b.

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has used a water blob to explain Earth's shape. Discover the physics of surface tension, rotation, and inertia in this space and physics explainer.