Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth's geological record has ...

Google Earth has so many features that its hard to keep track of all its capabilities. Some of the features are almost hidden (like the built-in flight simulator) and others require some developer ...

The moon orbits Earth — right? The answer is actually a little more complicated than that. The moon is circling a point about 3,000 miles from our planet's center, just below its surface. Earth is ...

The Earth seems to inhale and exhale in a new animation that shows how carbon is taken up and released as the seasons change. The animated continents seem to deflate during summertimes, indicating ...

A former NASA scientist has released an informative animated video that shows how fast Earth is rotating relative to the Sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and the Cosmic Microwave Background. The simple ...

A new animation showcasing Earth's evolution has surfaced in a new paper published in the journal Science. The animation was created using a new model, which highlights over 100 million years of ...

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit ...

Earth in 250 million years won’t be the planet we know and love today. Plate tectonics theory reveals how plates comprising Earth’s outer shell glide atop the mantle, causing continents to drift apart ...

Apart from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, there aren’t many connections between space and dinosaurs outside of the imagination. But that all changed when NASA research ...

This is a new type of animation I haven’t seen with Google Earth before. James Stafford has posted at his Barnabu blog a way to view hurricane satellite photo animations which doesn’t eat up too much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured a view of the moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. DSCOVR EPIC ...