Understanding Earth's Rotation Earth's rotation is the invisible hand that influences many aspects of our daily lives. It takes about 24 hours for Earth to complete one full spin around its axis. This ...

World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...

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The results of their study were published 14 February 2025 in Science Advances. The findings will help to reconcile a debate in the Earth Science community about which processes were responsible ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a ... a seismologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Live Science. "The only thing that we know of these is ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter ... shifting won’t directly affect life on Earth. Over time, changes to this innermost layer ...

Intelligent life on Earth and beyond may be much more commonplace than we’d previously thought, according to a paper published February 14 in the journal Science Advances. The qualitative review ...