It’s hard to believe we’re still making new scientific discoveries about Earth, but the third rock from the sun continues to ...

Earth Day started in the 1970s. Here’s an Earth Day fact everyone should know: Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970 ...

Our planet is a cosmic marvel spinning through space at incredible speeds, harboring an estimated 8.7 million species, and maintaining the perfect conditions for life as we know it. Yet despite living ...

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Extraterrestrials have issued a stark warning to mankind that we risk annihilating our planet in a stunning UFO revelation, which researchers are hailing as "first contact." The ominous alert from ...

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is today at aphelion, the point in its orbit at which ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are also nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments for millions of years. Pollen’s tough outer shell enables it to ...

Amid the cold silence of the main belt, a giant rock drifts through space. It has existed for billions of years unchanged, but today, it will be irrevocably broken. Another rocky object hurtles toward ...

Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers of ...

Earth signs are the most grounded people on the planet—you know, the ones who always keep it 100 real. They’re known to be stable, pragmatic, and unwavering. If you want someone to edit your résumé or ...