Tag: earth

The ebb of 20 years worth of seasons condensed in 2.5 minutes.

Each of the two belts surrounds the Earth in a sort of doughnut-shaped formation.

Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.

Bird's eye view.

Not all planets are as lucky as Earth.

We are legion!

Talk about hailstone, right?

Who wouldn't?

Worry and excitement, all in one paper.

There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.

Our humble satellite just got a heck of a lot more interesting.

Tick tock.

Silly bacteria, carbon-based life is best life!

It doesn't answer everything -- but it's a good point to start from.

An ancient oceanic slab buried beneath the Mediterranean sea might revise textbooks.

The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.

The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.

Despite being thousands of kilometers away, the sun and moon are behind some of the earthquakes on the Earth.

Death from the heavens.

These movements could in turn help speed up global warming.

Crash boom bang! Our planet and another protoplanet may have collided head-on in their early history.

Scientists finally crack down a puzzle that has eluded the community for years. It seems sea level rise does indeed ...

Astronomers describe that the present-day tilt of the Moon is likely a result of collision-free encounters of the early Moon ...

Gas giants like Saturn or Jupiter may have formed not from a planetary core, but rather from tiny pebbles that ...

Using three state of the art ground-based telescopes, a team of astronomers has identified three super-Earth exoplanets that are seven ...

Most people tend to think of the Earth in terms of crust, mantle and core, and while those are indeed ...

A new shocking theory suggests that Jupiter may have sweeped through our solar system much like a wrecking ball, knocking ...

A total solar eclipse took place on November 23, 2003; the Moon elegantly set itself in between the Sun and ...

Billions of years ago, our ancient planet collided with a Mars-sized object called Theia. The impact released tremendous amounts of ...

Because the moon is tidally-locked to Earth, we're used to seeing our cosmic neighbor like a stationary lonesome figure. Now, ...

Many thousands of miles above our planet's surface, electrons whiz through close to the speed of light. These electrons can ...

Scientists have indirectly demonstrated the existence of a hot layer surrounding the Moon's core, through seismic and deformation studies. This ...

Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Over the past six months, the Earth's magnetic field - the bubble that protects ...

Artist impression of planetary impact that led to the formation of the moon. photo: NASA A new massive computer model ...

Using two different dating technique, geologists have come across what they believe to be the oldest piece of Earth discovered ...

The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance baffled researchers. So far, ...

Billions of years ago, the Earth was unrecognizable from the life supporting paradise it is today. Fossilized raindrops from some ...

Eris is a dwarf planet, observed in 2005 for the first time, whose discovery led to Pluto losing its planet ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is a definite oddball of the solar system. It has its axis titled ...

We all know (hopefully) that Jupiter is much, much larger than the Earth; but sometimes, the best way to get ...

How's your Mandarin? If it's as rusty as mine, we'd do best and brush up on it since it seems ...

Astronomers from the the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland declared that a recently discovered asteroid has been following our planet ...

Contrary to what you might expect, a recent published study unveiled by scientists shows a map of our planet's gravity, ...

The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...

Earth Hour is an initiative started by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) that asks people everywhere ...

A very small asteroid exploded over the continent of Africa this week, confirming the prediction of astronomers. Despite the fact ...

It's not a bird, it's not a planet, it's not Jupiter... it's super earth. Actually, there's 3 of them. What ...