Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the ... the Earth's surface, contain close to 20 million tons of gold. From our morning ...

Did you know that the mining of rare earth minerals can have surprising effects on our planet? 🌎 These 10 facts will open ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection introduces the Sun as the main source of light and heat on Earth. It explains that the Earth ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880." ...

Deforestation is a very destructive process that threatens the health of our planet and its inhabitants ... Rainforests in these regions cover just 2% of Earth's total surface area and yet ...

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

A single rotation of our planet takes 24 ... climate change is slowing the planet’s rate of rotation and its angle. Exactly where the axis of rotation meets Earth’s surface moves by about ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...