The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The Hidden Demand for Rare Earth Elements Rare earth elements (REEs) might sound like something out of a sci-fi novel, but ...

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

The earth hums with a quiet, rhythmic beat somewhere between the heavens and the ground beneath our feet. It is an ...

On Tuesday, astronomers reported that 2024 YR4’s probability of colliding with Earth increased to approximately 3%, which is ...

The Boomerang Nebula holds the record for the coldest known natural place, with a temperature of just -458 degrees Fahrenheit (-272 degrees Celsius), only one degree above absolute zero. Venus takes ...

We came across a superb infographic released by Giraffe, who are childcare and early learning specialists, which states 50 awesome facts about Earth. The first one that caught our eye is that ...

Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the ...

Sound as we know it does not exist in space. That’s because, on Earth, sound mainly travels to our ears via vibrating air molecules. Because space is a vacuum, meaning there is no matter at all ...

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer. It is made of solid rock and sits on top of another layer, called the mantle. The mantle flows and stretches like bubble gum, while the crust above ...