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

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

In honor of the holiday, we've collected a list of Earth Day facts that just might surprise even the savviest of trivia buffs. For instance, perhaps you may know that Earth Day was founded in 1970 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection introduces the Sun as the main source of light and heat on Earth. It explains that the Earth ...

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

La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, but January 2025 was still the hottest on ...