The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

More Than 500 Birds Will Vanish From Earth in the Coming Century, According to a New Study Several human activities have facilitated unprecedented changes in the environment.

Archaeologists in Spain got the surprise of a lifetime when they discovered the ruins of a powerful fifth-century fortress surrounded by a huge defensive wall in a dense forest, instead of the ...

New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the ...

When is Earth Day? Earth Day falls on April 22 every year. This year, it falls on the Tuesday after Easter. Although the day has been celebrated for more than half a century, it isn't federally ...

Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just due to melting ice sheets. Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground ...

The top news stories today: Scientists confirm a new fifth layer inside the Earth's core, Russia's replacement Soyuz spacecraft arrives at ISS to bring back crew, Watch the first episode of Star ...

But we humans have had a much larger impact on our planet, especially recently. There are now 1.3 trillion tons of man-made stuff on the planet, almost all of it built in the 20th century.

They were starting to consider that the Earth might be millions of years old, rather than thousands, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that researchers established that our planet had been around ...

Instead, the Earth is tracking towards around 2.7°C average warming by 2100. That level of warming would represent "unprecedented peril" for life on this planet. But it shows progress is being made.

A new image has been taken of the whole Earth 50 years after the first - revealing noticeable changes to its surface.