Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

From months-long daylight in Alaska to floating islands and glowing skies, this geography quiz explores surprising Earth ...

We have lots of recent evidence to suggest Earth is weird—really weird. Our planet, for example, mysteriously pulsates every 26 seconds, has a secret hidden layer, is rapidly getting colder (but only ...

Science is full of weird and wacky things. From the way our bodies work to the way that light moves through space, there's a lot that can surprise and intrigue us. Now, a bunch of users on Reddit have ...