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.

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… ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered that the water content of a planet-forming disk around an infant star is enough to fill Earth's oceans three times over. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

We’re living in a weird time on Earth: a period when our planet has ice. Amid persistent and frequent record heat, it may be surprising to hear that Earth is currently relatively cool — at ...

Whether it's from a classroom globe or one of NASA's stunning satellite images, most people are pretty familiar with how our planet looks.. But a rarely seen angle of Earth is now freaking people out.

Once Nuview has its 20 LiDAR satellites in service, they will map the Earth from space on an ongoing basis, with the goal of producing a new whole planet map each year.

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.