The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...

The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% of all the Martian material currently on this planet, Sotheby's says. It ...

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...