Earth is home to an estimated 8.7 million species. Creatures of all sizes and styles roam land and sea. National Geographic celebrates the rich diversity of our planet with the # ...

Earth Day, an annual event to show support for the protection of the Earth and what’s living on it, is almost upon us. Under the motto ‘Our power, our planet,’ more than one billion people will come ...

He urged students to channel their advocacy toward protecting the planet, and the idea of Earth Day was born. The very first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. About 20 million Americans ...

Twenty years ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Mars Express to explore the Red Planet. Since then, scientists have gathered an immense collection ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app ...

Earth has been hiding several mysteries in its heart ever since it was born billions of years ago, the focus being "heart" here. Scientists say that just like the people who live here, our home planet ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will sit down with Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer for their first interview since returning to Earth on "America's Newsroom" on Monday. Hemmer's live ...

The stunning lake is the only place on Earth with geology and mineralogy comparable to those of the ancient impact structure on the Red Planet. This striking similarity meant scientists flocked to ...

Something where 4K isn't just nice to have, it's essential — transforming a merely dazzling experience into an ecstatic one. Enter Planet Earth II, the insanely beautiful nature series narrated ...

To many people, a rock is just a rock. If anyone has been house shopping, you know how realtors will mention that the countertops are "granite" and you might wonder why, from house to house, they all ...

Back in 1832, the celebrated British physicist, Michael Faraday, carried out a set of experiments designed to answer a tantalizing question: could electricity be generated by Earth's rotation through ...

A "potentially hazardous" pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as it reaches its closest point to our planet in more than 100 years.