The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Brr! But in sunlight near Earth, temperatures can swing to a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit. That's why astronauts wear reflective white spacesuits. Unimpeded, light can move at 299,792,458 meters ...

The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists. The inner core is ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

We came across a superb infographic released by Giraffe, who are childcare and early learning specialists, which states 50 awesome facts about Earth. The first one that caught our eye is that ...

Sound as we know it does not exist in space. That’s because, on Earth, sound mainly travels to our ears via vibrating air molecules. Because space is a vacuum, meaning there is no matter at all ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...