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"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from ...

Our planet’s history is one of extreme climate cycles that repeat across time, with insights into the Earth’s previous ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...