They're buried thousands of miles below the surface. The post Scientists Detect Strange New Structures Deep Inside the Earth ...

Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million ...

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

Have you ever walked across a salt flat so expansive it feels like another planet? That's what it's like standing in Egypt's ...

Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past ...

While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them—they ...

The asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, has been dubbed the "most dangerous in ...

India launched an Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit today (Sept. 3) —something it had not previously done ...