For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

Kyushu University researchers created a model to study how sunlight affects plants under different weather conditions.

“It is quite hard to believe that the pattern has not been seen before.” The Milankovitch theory, which was proposed a century ago, says that the small variations in the Earth's ...

Google Earth Screenshots Reveal Our Planet’s Beautiful, Pattern-Like Designs An artist virtually flies the globe via Google Earth, capturing its most eye-popping aerial views along the way.

This air mass creates winds that characterize weather patterns in the temperate zones. Under the influence of Earth's rotation, air returning to Earth's surface is deflected by the Coriolis force ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and the Sun on Saturday during an event called an inferior conjunction. However, this rare alignment is extremely difficult to observe without special equipment and a ...

An extensive, decades-long analysis tracking endangered caribou populations has revealed that migration patterns are eroding.

Building on a previous study that supported the ancient philosopher Plato’s conjecture—that Earth is mostly made from cubes—geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack of the University of Pennsylvania teamed up ...