Boffins have been puzzled for decades about two strange blots under our planet, but now some new research could finally be ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...

Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

In A Nutshell Inner Solar System origins: By measuring iron isotopes in Moon rocks and meteorites, researchers determined ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.

Millions of people around the world will pause on Tuesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...

After its debut in the United Kingdom, "Planet Earth III" will soon be available to stream in the U.S. The third iteration of the smash hit natural history series "Planet Earth" continues its ...