The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

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

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

"I find this asteroid to be extremely exciting! This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." ...

Earth science concentrates on investigating how the planet works and why. This field delves into the many layers of the Earth and explains how those pieces fit together into a cohesive structure.

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space ... new findings that researchers say shows the rotation of Earth’s inner core is slowing down relative to the spin of the ...

"We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State, told Live Science. "I think it's still considered one of the great unsolved problems in geophysics today." Earth's ...