How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

A new Captain Planet comic book series is on the way - the first in three decades - and the hero is back with a new look (and ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features of ...

Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.