Earth: The Most Fascinating Planet in the Universe? Even though we live on this planet, there’s still so much we don’t know!

This gravity disparity is largely due to that equatorial bulge creating non-uniform distances from points on the ... the Earth's surface, contain close to 20 million tons of gold. From our morning ...

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

You might just need these crazy facts about Earth you never learned in school to ace this one. A. Mercury and Mars B. Mercury ...

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 ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

Narrator: 4 and a half billion years ago, clouds of cosmic dust and gas which were orbiting the Sun collided into one another, creating the Earth, our planet, the home of mankind. It spins at 1000 ...

They hope the project will help shed light on some little-explored processes taking place inside our planet's gaseous shroud, including the magnificent northern lights. Some parts of Earth's ...

A single rotation of our planet takes 24 ... climate change is slowing the planet’s rate of rotation and its angle. Exactly where the axis of rotation meets Earth’s surface moves by about ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...