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.

John Nelson is a designer, well known for tracing complex weather patterns or cultural information on maps, so considering what he usually does, this was easy. NASA's Visible Earth team publishes ...

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the ...

The biggest jigsaw puzzle in the solar system has a split personality: The number and sizes of Earth's tectonic plates can flip, according to a new study. Today, the pieces of Earth's broken shell ...

A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time.. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...