Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU Occasional Christmas is everyman’s entitlement however the period of waiting. The peak of ‘ayebeism’ (stupidity) is   to laze away and wait for one’s occasional Christmas in ...

Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

Perched in the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, Zhangye Danxia National Geopark occupies a high, windswept shelf ...

When looking at a map, the Strait of Hormuz might not seem all that impressive. It’s just a slim waterway squeezed between ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

It takes roughly 248 Earth years for Pluto to circle the sun, and during that time, its highly elliptical orbit takes it as far as 49 astronomical units from our star, and as close as 30.

Scientists have discovered massive underground oceans trapped beneath Earth’s crust, potentially containing more water than all surface oceans combined—reshaping what we know about earthquakes ...

The coldest temp Earth has ever seen came from Antarctica. At Russia's Vostok Station, temperatures were recorded as low as -128.6 °F (-89.2 °C) on July 21, 1983.

Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...