The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at record speeds, causing GPS timing errors and navigation delays on your ...

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.

Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is ...

Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known the inner core is solid thanks to the pioneering work of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who first proposed its ...

The water contained in the Earth's dams has impacted where its poles are and how fast it spins, but this one dam is making a ...

Ancient ice records show Earth’s oceans cooled over millions of years despite stable greenhouse gases, highlighting the role ...

On a special episode (first released on October 2, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Hollywood has long been enamored with end-of-the-world science fiction where asteroids play the leading role. But the ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032. Here's ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a relatively ...

Nearly 5 billion years ago, a dense cloud of gas and dust occupied this corner of the Milky Way. The planets we know today, including Earth, were nowhere to be found. Scientists think that a nearby ...