An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.'s sustainable development goals.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

A TikTok has melted hearts after a grieving cat owner discovered a surprise on Google Earth. In the video, a woman (@usiviews) shared how she stumbled upon a photo of her childhood cat captured on Google Earth—waiting in the driveway for her to come home from school.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Nitrospirota is an archaeal phylum that’s particularly common in the terrestrial subsurface. Some species of nitrospirota are capable of oxidizing ammonia, while others can reduce it to nitrite, which is used by phytoplankton and also defends against pathogens in the human stomach, mouth, and skin.

The 47th president denounced the government he now leads as having been captured by ‘a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens’

Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration. They discovered that the Moon likely originated from Earth's mantle, not from the collision with the protoplanet Theia as previously thought.

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space telescopes are needed to shed light on the issue.

Now, a unique excavation of one of these rings has found that it was created anywhere 'between 590 and 1,400 years ago', and that Aboriginal people of the time cleared land and plants while scraping soil and rock to create the ring mound.

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880."

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that its epicenter was 142km east of the capital,