The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
Extreme Planet Earth has been announced today and will be coming to ITV1 and ITVX (as well as STV and STV Player) next year, ...
Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...
Though scientists aren't sure how the lithosphere came to be divided into plates, certain aspects of Earth's geology keep the plate tectonic engine chugging along. For a planet to sustain plate ...
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield has revealed what impact the 2024 YR4 asteroid could have on the planet if it strikes Earth in seven years.
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d, gets farther out from its star than Mars is ...
A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation speed – it also appears to change in shape, with subtle variations appearing in the way ...
Researchers said the planet has a mass six times greater than our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun. While located 20 light-years away, scientists believe the ...
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle ... have been building up a better picture of Earth's interior ...