Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

The Earth is encircled by an imaginary line known as the equator. Positioned at 0 degrees latitude, it separates the planet ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

In other words, if scientists can show that Earth's core contains a lot of helium-3, it will strongly suggest that the planet formed quickly, settling a long-standing debate about the birth of the ...

Last year, one dedicated cyclist traveled a greater distance than the earth’s circumference. In 2024, according to Strava, Czech cyclist Kateřina Rusá covered an incredibly impressive distance ...

Last year, one dedicated cyclist traveled a greater distance than the earth’s circumference. In 2024, according to Strava, Czech cyclist Kateřina Rusá covered an incredibly impressive distance of ...

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The circumference (distance around the largest part of the Earth) is roughly 24,898 miles (40,070 kilometers), according to NASA. (This area is also called the equator.) If you estimate that a day ...

Shortly after deploying into the final frontier, Athena snapped a few selfies with Earth in the background, including one that shows the Falcon 9's upper stage drifting in the void beneath the lander.

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...