Science has a funny way of humbling certainty. Most of us carry a mental picture of how Earth works that was assembled in ...

Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and everything more or less stays in its place. That picture, it turns out, is ...

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

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

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 ...