Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface ... which you can see in the animation below. The work, led by Xianzhi Cao from the Ocean University in China, is now published in ...

The dots moving across the right side of the animation show how quickly each object travels 150 kilometers. As you can see, Earth's rotation is relatively slow, whereas the Milky Way is barreling ...

The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's ...

Earth is moving much faster than it seems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It may feel like we're standing still ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... This creates very slow-moving currents as hot rock rises from the depths and cooler rock descends. The mantle is about 1,800 miles (2,900 ...

A terrifying new animation has revealed the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth ... evacuating the impact area and moving key infrastructure.

The moon is slowly moving away ... 16 times closer to Earth than it is today. As it cooled, the moon backed away, retreating thousands of miles into the distance. A new animation depicts that ...

A spiral graphic made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower, its colors moving from blue to red. It may look beautiful but it reveals is just how unusually hot our planet is becom ...