Makar Sankranti won’t always be on January 14. Slowly shifting Earth’s axis causes the Sun’s entry into Capricorn to drift, ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

Yet beyond astronomy, they grasped something deeper-what many today have overlooked-the science of energy, or shakti, and how ...

Makar Sankranti arrives without spectacle, yet it carries one of the deepest meanings in the Indian calendar. As winter ...

Currently, the Moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about 1.6 inches per year making it slowly appear smaller in the ...

Makar Sankranti will not be permanently fixed to January 14 in the future. Due to Earth’s slow axial wobble, known as ...

Glaciers are often treated as scenic features or scientific curiosities. In fact, they are critical infrastructure. Though ...

Every January, as sugarcane stalks appear at doorways and clay pots are set to boil over, a familiar question resurfaces: Why ...