The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over - and it wouldn't be the ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Climate change is causing a significant redistribution of mass on Earth due to melting ice sheets, leading to a shift in the ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles could shift ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

Scientists have developed a breakthrough coronagraph that could finally allow us to see Earth-like exoplanets hidden in the ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

In less than 20 years, human activities—especially the pumping of groundwater—have caused the Earth’s axis to shift by about 31.5 inches (or 80 centimeters), according to a new study.