Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

The ancient impact-uplifted hills act as a barrier, creating turbulence, lee-side eddies and back-vortices. As the air slows ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.

“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...

In recent weeks, a rumor claiming that Earth would “lose gravity ” for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026, has whipped up an online ...