Two plane-sized asteroids and another house-sized one will zip past the Earth today, and more are expected later in the week.

No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1,400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.

Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of Earth’s magnetic field. Relying on a hidden ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

Models suggest that impact-ejected material from Earth could reach Venus’ clouds and potentially survive there briefly.

"The large-scale flow reversal beneath the Pacific raises new questions about the behavior of Earth's deep interior," ...

Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that ...