Tag: Earth

For some time now, scientists have been a little concerned over an anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field. It’s so concerning, they even gave it its own name—the South Atlantic ...

Your living room aquarium filled with exotic fish might be one of the many reasons the planet isn’t doing so well right now. New research reveals that a crazy 90 ...

Things have been getting darker on planet Earth for the past two decades. Yes, that can generally be applied to the state of humanity. But it is more literally applicable ...

The universe is full of things that can kill us, but the most unsettling threats are the ones we can’t see. Astronomers say there may be hundreds of asteroids hiding ...

The Moon is slowly leaving us. Every year, it drifts about an inch and a half farther away, a detail scientists confirm by bouncing lasers off mirrors Apollo astronauts left ...

NASA’s new acting boss, Sean Duffy, yet another Trump administration official who was ripped straight from TV and put in charge of a major government agency, is less a rocket ...

Spring, summer, fall, winter—and now: trash season. A new study suggests Earth is developing entirely new seasons, built not by planetary tilt or natural rhythms but by human activity. They’re ...

Earth’s rotation is doing something weird: it’s speeding up. Not by much. Just by milliseconds. But those little slices of time are setting off alarm bells in the world of ...

When you try to come up with the Earth’s largest waterfall, there are a lot of factors to take into account. Some might break it down based on sheer size, ...

Earth might not be at the center of the universe, but we could be smack in the middle of nothing. A new theory suggests that our galaxy is drifting through ...