Earth

Residents of Beijing are all too familiar with the physical health effects of air pollution--like the 'Beijing cough'--but a new study...

There's a hundred different ways to look at the Earth, from heat maps to magnetic imaging, but one dimension that's particularly...

Satellite imagery of Earth is cool because it gives us a different perspective of our home, but it can also be quite disturbing. This...

While NASA's OSIRIS REx mission heads to the asteroid Bennu and JAXA's Hayabusa2 investigates Ryugu, another asteroid has decided to...

For the past few years, scientists have waffled between warning that the Earth's magnetic poles could flip at any time (with...

When you find out that elephants need to eat between 200-600 pounds of food a day, or that hummingbirds have to consume half their...

We like to think of the scientific community as being a group of Very Serious Individuals™ committed to approaching natural...

Finding Nemo may have led you to believe otherwise, but the ocean doesn't go from the happy sunlit upper parts to the deep, dark...

It's easy to look at Jupiter's 63 moons and feel a little left out: Earth has only one moon and – although it's pretty nice –...

A recent paper on potential 'exo-civilizations' claimed that alien civilizations who follow in our environment-ruining footsteps will...

According to a new study published on Monday, scientists in northeastern Utah have discovered fossils that belong to a new giant...

Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN), an international environment think tank, assesses how much of the Earth's resources...

Han Solo may have survived in carbonite for months, and Captain America may have survived being frozen for 70 years, but there are two...

Researchers at the University of Colorado have found that exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan parasite found in house cats,...

It's not going to save you 100% of the time, but if you could travel with armor on your back all day every day, you'd stand a better...

The biggest payday in history is sitting one hundred miles beneath Earth’s surface. Scientists from MIT – with scholars at ten...

For midwesterners, fireworks weren't the only things worth staring up at the sky for during this long holiday weekend. Hundreds of...

Today marks Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit when we are farthest from the Sun! If you want to be exact, aphelion occurred...

Just two days into their search for a giant meteorite that crashed off the coast of Washington State, Dr. Marc Fries and the crew of...

Despite tens of thousands of meteorites entering Earth's atmosphere each year, the vast majority of them burn up before they ever hit...