Have you ever wondered why, despite seeing millions of beautiful images of a spherical Earth taken from space, the Earth appears flat to us? From horizon to horizon, our world looks like a two ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

Why the seasons change What kinds ... get less of the sun’s heat and light. The Earth takes a full year to go around the sun. As it does, places that are tilted towards the sun change.

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in England recorded the shortest day ever on June 29 and another shortened day on July 26, according to Popular Mechanics, a science and technology ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets ... receiving 112 times as much heat from its star as Earth does. Its size also places it just below what ...

But what is a blood moon, exactly, and why does the ... “Having color in Earth’s shadow is odd because you would think the Earth completely blocks light, and it does—the culprit is our ...

Speaking of abundance, why not use nitrogen, which comprises 78% of Earth's atmosphere? "The main problem with nitrogen is that it's triple bonded," Canfield said. "And it's very, very difficult ...