How far is the Moon? Visualizing the distance
It's not exactly accurate, but it's a dazzling display.
Tag: earth
The Earth whispers in a low hum that’s now been recorded for the 1st time underwater
This planet is restless to its core.
NASA records 20 years of changing seasons in new global map
The ebb of 20 years worth of seasons condensed in 2.5 minutes.
The Ever-changing and Skepticized Van Allen Belts
Each of the two belts surrounds the Earth in a sort of doughnut-shaped formation.
Ancient cosmic collissions between small bodies could explain quirk of early solar system formation
Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.
Uranus has a magnetosphere that turns on and off every day
Not all planets are as lucky as Earth.
Why 7.5 billion people on Earth is bad news
We are legion!
Silica rains helped form Earth’s crust four and a half billion years ago
Talk about hailstone, right?
Microorganisms can survive in space and on other planets, safe behind dried-up biofilms
Worry and excitement, all in one paper.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Earth might have had 20 moonlets before they coalesced to form *the* Moon
Our humble satellite just got a heck of a lot more interesting.
Scientists coax bacteria towards silicon-based life
Silly bacteria, carbon-based life is best life!
A new model to explain the Moon’s weird orbit suggests a much more violent genesis
It doesn't answer everything -- but it's a good point to start from.
Oldest oceanic crust might have been part of the Tethys Ocean 340 million years ago
An ancient oceanic slab buried beneath the Mediterranean sea might revise textbooks.
Over-consumption is more deadly to Earth’s wildlife than climate change
We use so much of everything so fast that it's literally killing the planet.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is heating its upper atmosphere
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
Ancient rocks reveal causes of Earth’s greatest mass extinction event
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Gravitational pull causes some earthquakes on California’s San Andreas Fault
Despite being thousands of kilometers away, the sun and moon are behind some of the earthquakes on the Earth.
Ancient supernovae might have contributed to Earth mass extinction
Death from the heavens.
Climate change pushing clouds higher into the atmosphere, shifting them towards Earth’s poles
These movements could in turn help speed up global warming.
Earth may actually be 2 planets, new study finds
Crash boom bang! Our planet and another protoplanet may have collided head-on in their early history.
Earth rotates slower from sea-level rise: ‘Munk’s Enigma’ now solved
Scientists finally crack down a puzzle that has eluded the community for years. It seems sea level rise does indeed ...
How the Moon got its tilt
Astronomers describe that the present-day tilt of the Moon is likely a result of collision-free encounters of the early Moon ...
Biggest Planets Started out as Tiny Pebbles
Gas giants like Saturn or Jupiter may have formed not from a planetary core, but rather from tiny pebbles that ...
Automated process finds three super-Earths in our neighborhood – a new way to hunt for alien planets
Using three state of the art ground-based telescopes, a team of astronomers has identified three super-Earth exoplanets that are seven ...
Scientists discover another layer in the Earth’s mantle
Most people tend to think of the Earth in terms of crust, mantle and core, and while those are indeed ...
Young Jupiter Swept Through the Solar System, Destroying Super Earths
A new shocking theory suggests that Jupiter may have sweeped through our solar system much like a wrecking ball, knocking ...
There’s an ancient Earth within a new Earth, new geochemistry findings suggest
Billions of years ago, our ancient planet collided with a Mars-sized object called Theia. The impact released tremendous amounts of ...
An animated glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
Because the moon is tidally-locked to Earth, we're used to seeing our cosmic neighbor like a stationary lonesome figure. Now, ...
Star Trek-like shield discovered in Earth’s orbit shelters our planet from ‘killer electrons’
Many thousands of miles above our planet's surface, electrons whiz through close to the speed of light. These electrons can ...
Still hot inside the Moon? Earth gravity creating a hot layer
Scientists have indirectly demonstrated the existence of a hot layer surrounding the Moon's core, through seismic and deformation studies. This ...
Earth’s magnetic field 10 times weaker than previous year. Is it about to flip?
Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Over the past six months, the Earth's magnetic field - the bubble that protects ...
The moon formed much later than thought, but new questions arise
Artist impression of planetary impact that led to the formation of the moon. photo: NASA A new massive computer model ...
This is the oldest known piece of our planet – a 4.4 billion-year-old gem
Using two different dating technique, geologists have come across what they believe to be the oldest piece of Earth discovered ...
Astronomers discover planet that shouldn’t be there
The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance baffled researchers. So far, ...
Raindrops fossil 2.7-billion-year-old reveals secrets from Earth’s early atmosphere
Billions of years ago, the Earth was unrecognizable from the life supporting paradise it is today. Fossilized raindrops from some ...
Dwarf planet Eris, which led to Pluto’s demise as a planet, may bring back it’s status
Eris is a dwarf planet, observed in 2005 for the first time, whose discovery led to Pluto losing its planet ...
Uranus orbit tipped on its side by a series of Earth-sized impacts
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, is a definite oddball of the solar system. It has its axis titled ...
China on the moon: rover by 2013, samples by 2017 and manned landing by 2025
How's your Mandarin? If it's as rusty as mine, we'd do best and brush up on it since it seems ...
Stalker asteroid could be Earth’s close relative
Astronomers from the the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland declared that a recently discovered asteroid has been following our planet ...
Earth’s gravity is shaped like a ‘potato’
Contrary to what you might expect, a recent published study unveiled by scientists shows a map of our planet's gravity, ...
New planet close to size of Earth found
The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...
Melt rises up 25 times faster than previously believed
Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour is an initiative started by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) that asks people everywhere ...
First firm prediction of an incoming space rock confirmed
A very small asteroid exploded over the continent of Africa this week, confirming the prediction of astronomers. Despite the fact ...
Three ‘Super-Earths’ Found Orbiting One Star
It's not a bird, it's not a planet, it's not Jupiter... it's super earth. Actually, there's 3 of them. What ...
