We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

As revealed in the official Google Earth Blog, users can now zoom into any area on Google Earth, tap a button and create new ...

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

A 2011 satellite photo shows off an "imbricate fan" of alternating rocks in Pakistan's Sulaiman Range.

In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The ...

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

Two scientists explored the idea that there was another civilizaton before humans, which harnessed energy and wiped itself ...

Deep beneath submarine volcanoes, Earth may be running a natural “gold kitchen.” By analyzing volcanic glass from the ...