Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

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 ...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

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 ...

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is orbiting Mercury, is taking photos of its own that should include Earth. Times for those shots: 7:49 a.m., 8:38 a.m. and 9:41 a.m. ET. (And yes, we know none ...

In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital cycle to changes in the ...