With a 5-mile (8 kilometers) resolution and 21-day path covering most of the planet, just one year of data from SWOT gives a clearer picture of the ocean floor than 30 years of data collectively ...

T he results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming. We are deep into the yellow danger zone and moving rapidly towards the red high-risk ...

Each up to 559 miles tall and thousands of miles wide—and together covering some 25 percent of the surface of our planet's core— Earth's LLVPs were first discovered in the 1980s, when ...

Planet Earth Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode ... "It's crazy to think that we don't have a complete map of our planet," Ferrini said.

If planet Earth just got an annual check-up, similar to a person’s physical, “our doctor would say that the Earth is really quite sick right now and it is sick in terms of many different areas ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life R… ...

NASA shared striking views of nearly all of Earth's water in new maps of the planet's global sea levels. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

It is the second densest planet after Earth, with a huge metallic core roughly 2,200 to 2,400 miles (3,600 to 3,800 kilometers) wide, or about 75% of the planet's diameter.

The literally Earth-shattering event sheared off huge amounts of debris, eventually forming our planet's lonely satellite. Or at least how the theory goes; not all researchers agree, naturally.

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

All of these things happened during Snowball Earth upheaval,” said Courtney-Davies. “We have to better characterize this entire time period to understand how we and the planet evolved together.