Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

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

The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists. The inner core is ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Animals use Earth’s magnetic field for orientation ... We told you—these science facts are pretty amazing! Next, check out more “did you know” facts that are almost hard to believe.

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.

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place ... These clips are from the BBC series, Primary Focus Science and Science Clips, Earth, Sun and Moon. Our main source of natural ...

La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, but January 2025 was still the hottest on ...

Brr! But in sunlight near Earth, temperatures can swing to a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit. That's why astronauts wear reflective white spacesuits. Unimpeded, light can move at 299,792,458 meters ...