With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.
Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as ...
When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...
Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.
Every year, millions of people across the globe gather to mark Earth Day and celebrate the environmental movement. The event began in 1970 in the United States, and is now marked around the world.
Our planet is in constant flux. Tectonic plates—the large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust so that it looks like a cracked eggshell—jostle about in fits and starts that continuously reshape ...
A giant asteroid impact could boil Earth's oceans, killing all life. A significant drop in oxygen levels could cause a mass extinction event. A nearby gamma-ray burst could destroy the ozone layer ...
The moon's orbit around Earth appears so regular that civilizations have based the month on lunar motion for thousands of years. However, the moon is actually creeping slowly away from Earth. So ...
Here are 10 exoplanets regarded as the most Earth-like alien worlds discovered to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Since ...
Earth’s climate has fluctuated through deep time, pushed by these 10 different causes. Here’s how each compares with modern climate change. Earth has been a snowball and a hothouse at different ...
Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.