Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth have interacted over the past 500-plus million ... a perspective article on this co-evolutionary history, published in National Science Review. "One of our ...

Migratory birds can navigate using just magnetic inclination and declination. This discovery challenges assumptions about the ...

After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

Roughly 233 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

There’s a final Super Moon this coming weekend – it’s the last in a sequence of four. First, we need some background as to ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...