Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

“It’s almost science fiction to visualize what ... to investigate the unseen workings at the heart of our planet and discover what Earth’s internal spinning, churning and shape-shifting ...

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more favorable views of renewable energy and the environment.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

Mother Earth, Gaia, the third rock from the Sun - whatever you call it, this 4.5 billion-year-old planet is the one that we and all known living creatures call home.