Solar dust could be influencing how the corona shines.

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Our planet isn't a perfect sphere but an oblate spheroid, bulging at the Equator due to rotation. This subtle flattening, though unnoticeable daily, significantly impacts GPS, climate studies, and ...

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...

A surprising reversal in molten iron flow beneath the Pacific is giving scientists a sharper view of how Earth’s magnetic ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. The big picture of the moon’s origin is fairly well established.

A star passed near Earth and the Sun and jostled objects in the Oort Cloud 2.5 million years ago, sending them on a journey towards us. They are all long-period comets, meaning most of them would ...

If the Earth had an edge, it might look something like this, the edge of a flat Earth. A vast frozen wall at the horizon, ...

Climate change and destructive practices, like deforestation and agricultural sprawl, have left 40 per cent of Earth’s land degraded.

In this version of alternate history, Columbus set sail on his epic voyage to the Americas to prove to the world that the ...