The Earth that exists today wasn't formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we're quite a latecomer.
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Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
An annular eclipse is coming to Earth on October 14, 2023. Six months later, a total solar eclipse is headed our way. Here's the reason why.
Leap day only comes once every four years, including in 2024. But the reason we have it, including when we do and don't, may surprise you.
The least exciting of all eclipses, a penumbral lunar eclipse, foreshadows the spectacular show that April 8th's total eclipse will bring.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: "Are we alone in the cosmos?"
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we've transformed the entire planet completely. Here's how we did it.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System's grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here's what's known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
The discovery suggests that the "Boring Billion" period of evolution on Earth wasn't so boring after all.
Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.
Why would the Earth suddenly start vomiting forth huge quantities of mud?
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
The midwest is particularly filled with them.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that's 10 with 30 zeros after it.