Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

The study suggested that ocean temperatures at continental margins — the areas where life was most active — were ...

This video explains how Earth’s rotation and shape affect gravity, leading to small differences in weight depending on where ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

What happens if Earth stops rotating?Etan MeyerBoca Raton, FL I will assume you're referring to what would happen if Earth stopped rotating all at once, without any gradual reduction in velocity. In ...

The planet that appears so steady beneath our feet is, in reality, subtly reorienting itself in space. As ice melts, oceans swell and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers, the balance of mass on ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. The rock, which fell to Earth from Mars, could reveal clues about the Red ...

EXPERTS fear an abandoned Russian military satellite has broken up over Earth contributing to dangerous “space junk”. There are millions of pieces of debris orbiting the planet dumped ...