The latter won’t surprise anyone who’s watched any of the Alien movies. At the show’s heart will be a question that’s ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

Using the joint U.S.-Taiwanese COSMIC-2 satellite network, as well as 37 ground-based radars called ionosodes, the team ...