Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

November’s astrology has already taken everyone on a wild ride, but the full moon rising on Nov. 15 is set to bring about ...

There, the rock that underlies the Outback is about 4.4 billion years old. Over time, Earth's surface renews itself in a process known as the rock cycle. Old or new, sedimentary or igneous ...

A new airless tire, inspired by water droplets, has been developed in South Korea and could revolutionize how vehicles handle ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Inspired by the surface tension of water droplets, it goes from solid to fluid when it encounters impediments. Other possible applications include robots that spy on the enemy in the battlefield. The ...

November’s astrology has already taken everyone on a wild journey, but the November full moon rising on the 15th is expected to bring even more surprises.

Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our planet froze solid ...