The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the ...

In 2007, satellites detected an unusual gravity anomaly originating from deep within the Earth, suggesting rapid changes near ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Most pieces in this series of primers have stayed within the realm of the biological, examining life at the levels of the species, the individual, the organ and the cell. But the first dealt with a ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. Subscribe to our ...