Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and everything more or less stays in its place. That picture, it turns out, is ...

Prepare to have your worldview shattered! Discover 25 science facts that will break your brain, revealing the universe's most ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

There are many, many weird things seen on Google Earth. The service, which was launched in 2005, compiles images from various sources, from satellites in geosynchronous orbit that snap low-resolution ...

JACKIE. YEAH. GOOD AFTERNOON. IT’S A REALLY NICE DAY OUT HERE. OF COURSE, WE’VE GOT THE SUN SHINING ON THIS EARTH DAY. A LITTLE BREEZY, SO MY HAIR HAS BEEN KIND OF GOING HERE. THERE AND EVERYWHERE. A ...

The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.

A college student in a gas mask "smells" a magnolia blossom during the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 in New York City. More than 8 billion people inhabit our planet, and each year Earth Day ...