Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | ...

The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

You’ve probably seen the analogy of the Earth’s timeline compared to a one day, 24-hour period. If not, take a look at the video below to get a quick understanding. According to this analogy, Earth ...

The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apart ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” marks the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for release in theaters. There have been ...

Determining Earth's bulk composition is difficult because so little of the planet is directly accessible. As a result, most estimates derive from a comparison of Earth rocks with the planet's probable ...

Earth has a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes Earth's axis. Both are essential for life to develop on our planet. Scientists have now been able to show that water ...

Scientists now have a better understanding of three concepts regarding the early Earth: what kind of raw materials coalesced to form Earth long ago, when water arrived on our planet, and why Earth and ...