Earth grew to its final size through one last major collision with another Mars-sized object. This last collision, also known as the “moon-forming impact,” was so large that—in addition to adding lots ...

It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock. An asteroid ...

The longer she was in orbit, Cristoforetti says, the more her perception of humanity’s time on Earth evolved. When the massive geologic forces that have sculpted the planet are visible at a ...

In the clip, shared on TikTok on Sunday by his owner, under the username @nattnaomi, the 8-month-old black rescue kitty can ...

Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people.

William R. Kenan Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Collin Roesler talks to the academic journal Science about NASA’s recently launched PACE satellite, which will provide valuable ...

A: We had no direct view of Earth until the dawn of the Space Age. Finding physical evidence that our planet revolves around the Sun took some clever thinking to prove that this heliocentric model ...

STEP 2 - Compare the football and modelling clay ball in size. The football represents the Sun and the modelling clay ball is the Earth. Because the Earth is always slowly spinning, everywhere on ...

They may sound innocuous to you, but please don’t throw around these seemingly innocent words and phrases that have horrible origins. These familiar terms derive from stereotypes, slurs ...

Earth Day became an annual event starting on April 22, 1970. The goal was to have a day to support the environment and protect our planet for future generations. Each year since then, more than a ...