Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

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

Earth: The Most Fascinating Planet in the Universe? Even though we live on this planet, there’s still so much we don’t know!

Rainforests in these regions cover just 2% of Earth's total surface area and yet house half of the world's plant and animal species. Deforestation is the clearing of forests. Most deforestation ...

A neutron star’s density is mind-boggling. These stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons packed together in a tiny radius. Just a teaspoonful of this material would weigh over a trillion ...

The Moon will pass into Earth's shadow and appear to turn red on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending on ...

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat: Fish, seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas ...

Minerals are the building blocks of rocks. These rocks result from accumulating mineral and organic particles on the earth's surface. The particles are then compacted during the cementation process.