Key PointsAbout 4.5 billion years ago, a dramatic event transformed the young Earth when a large protoplanet known as Theia struck our planet ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

Todd Snider, a singer-songwriter who was a longtime favorite of the Americana scene with his bracing honesty and wit, has ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and VITO, a leading European research and technology organization, today ...

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...