We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

A set of engineered safeguards could protect Earth's habitability for 9.1 quadrillion years, according to new research.

Researchers outline a theoretical plan to help Earth survive the Sun's death through artificial sunlight and other futuristic technologies.

A chunk of the Earth's crust is missing and scientists have discovered where it is ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

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In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The paper, published June 30 in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that ...

The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been relatively stable over billions of years. The balance of the deep water cycle—the exchange of water between ...

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