Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

It has become an order the day receiving dreadful news about environmental degradation such as melting glaciers, rising sea level, rising temperature, growing greenhouse gas emission, deforestation, ...

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As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the Moon, there should also be a measurable difference between the oxygen isotopes -- depending on the origin of the material that ...

new video loaded: Sound of a Meteorite Hitting Earth Is Captured for the First Time A couple returned home to a burst of debris on their walkway. Their home security camera revealed it was a ...

The new model shows blobs within Earth's mantle where seismic waves travel slower than usual (blue), which suggests they may be subducted slab chunks. (Image credit: Sebastian Noe/ETH Zurich ...

Sucerquia and colleagues selected five sets of spherical moons and their neighboring planets, including Earth and the moon ... stability," Sucerquia told Live Science in an email.

Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...

will give a talk titled “Effects of Subduction Obliquity on Mantle Wedge Flow Patterns and Subduction Zone Processes” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 30, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of ...

There are a million and one reasons that make Earth habitable for humans and every other creature around us. But central to that is one major thing: the planet's magnetic field. A protective ...

No, really! The Bible says so! Many skeptics—and even some Christians—point to a long list of Bible passages that refer to the Earth as having “four corners,” passages that refer to the earth being ...