Science has a funny way of humbling certainty. Most of us carry a mental picture of how Earth works that was assembled in school, reinforced by documentaries, and rarely questioned afterward. The ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) In case you missed it, last ...

Some science facts sound impossible, but they’re real. These examples show how strange reality can get once you look closer.

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 ...

JACKIE. YEAH. GOOD AFTERNOON. IT’S A REALLY NICE DAY OUT HERE. OF COURSE, WE’VE GOT THE SUN SHINING ON THIS EARTH DAY. A LITTLE BREEZY, SO MY HAIR HAS BEEN KIND OF GOING HERE. THERE AND EVERYWHERE. A ...