Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth partially illuminated, displaying continents and clouds, floating in dark space scattered with distant stars. …and sometimes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy Earth Day! For the 55th year, the world is using the day to celebrate Mother Nature and the wonderful planet we live on.

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

It's Earth Day, a day when people around the world celebrate the planet we call home. In honor of the occasion, here are some facts about Earth you may not know. Earth’s diameter, or the distance ...

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Where did all the water come from? Water, water everywhere. It covers 70% of Earth’s surface and earns it the nickname “the blue planet.” And yet … where did it come from? How is it so abundant on our ...

Earth is about to get a new neighbor in the form of an asteroid. But this one won’t be making an impact. Instead, it’ll be what space enthusiasts have dubbed a mini-moon, and it will stick around to ...

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.