Our planet may be blue from the inside out. Earth’s huge store of water might have originated via chemical reactions in the mantle, rather than arriving from space through collisions with ice-rich comets.
The countdown for the end of the year 2016 is going to be one second longer, thanks to a “leap second” that will be added on to the end of it, according to Science Alert.
The latest findings in Earth science are brought to you by ancient astronomers who observed the heavens as much as 2,700 years ago.
A team of Harvard scientists may have found an indication that a portion of an ancient Earth exists inside our planet’s mantle.
One full year of Earth, captured in a timelaps of pictures as NOAA’s DSCOVER hovers above.
Is it possible for a supernova explosion hundreds of light-years away to cause mass extinctions on our planet?
Like a boisterous older sibling, the gas giant both beat up and protected young Earth
The Milky Way, the brilliant river of stars that has dominated the night sky and human imaginations since time immemorial, is but a faded memory to one third of humanity and 80 percent of Americans, according to a new global atlas of light pollution produced by Italian and American scientists.
How did life start on Earth? Scientists believe that the solar flares from the sun four billion years ago was enough to trigger a spark of life.
New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current – an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet – behaves in a much different way than previously understood.
