Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

(Credit: GEER-NIST) To understand this unusual pattern, researchers analyzed special seismic waves called Lg waves – ...

When a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey's Tewksbury township on April 5, it triggered widespread alarm as ...

When a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey's Tewksbury township on April 5, it triggered widespread alarm.

In recent years, the rate of deforestation has declined, which the lead author of a new report that checks up on Earth's 'vital signs' attributes to new conservationist leadership in Brazil.

A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field caused by solar activity. There’s a reaction called nuclear fusion that occurs continuously deep within the Sun’s core.

Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard somewhere that Earth was going to get a second moon. Well, we can now confirm that Earth now officially has two moons after capturing asteroid 2024 PT5.

And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that we have seen the Earth acquire a new temporary satellite of this kind. Doing so is both a testament to how ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

It reminds you that even the sturdiest-seeming features of our world are ephemeral, that in 1,100 years, Earth’s axis will point to a new North Star. In 250,000 years, an undersea volcano will ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians.

In case you haven’t heard the big news yet, Earth now has a second moon. But it will be around for only a short period of time. Earth obtained a new mini-moon, which is actually a near-Earth asteroid, ...