Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...

There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit ... the park’s ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Meanwhile, Mars is at "opposition" this month. That's when a planet and the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This celestial event happens about every two years for the ...

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes wreak havoc on Earth ... building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are cooler than the rest of the planet. There is also a slight ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly ... Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the ...

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...

The researchers who created the map already suspected there could be more hydrogen buried in Earth's crust than scientists previously thought. But now that the results are out, even the team that ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it’s always seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic. This is the plane of the solar system. The ecliptic can easily ...