"Earth" Blogs & Blog Posts

This diagram easily breaks down the science of what's happening in space with the sun, moon, and Earth during the April 8 total solar eclipse.

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled NYC, NJ, and even Pennsylvania just days before the 2024 total solar eclipse. But the two events aren't related.

Leap years are necessary because, without them, December would drift into summer over time. The purpose of leap year is to keep the seasons stable.

If you were standing on Earth's equator when it suddenly stopped spinning, you could go flying eastward at 1,040 mph.

A supercomputer simulation has provided new evidence that continent-sized chunks of Theia, which helped create the moon, may still survive in the boundary between our planet's mantle and the core.

In brighter news today, "Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity," says a report in the journal Science Advances. According to the article, there are nine connected systems, or "planetary boundaries" (e.g., climate chan...

Geologists modeled the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate evolution in unprecedented detail, then animated it in a mesmerizing video.