WITH the help of a small rope tied around his ankles, Eugenio Sánchez, agile at age 50, climbed a towering tree to pluck a ...

And the science is clear: the patient, our home planet earth, is in critical condition. If we continue on this path, human health and wellbeing, economic prosperity, social stability, and equality ...

It will eventually break free of the planet’s gravitational orbit. Sadly, at just about 10 meters, the mini-moon will be extremely hard to see from Earth, but its presence will be there ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of ... 25, it will loop around the planet before breaking free of its gravitational tether and flying off into space. “It is pretty cool ...

Earth will temporarily get a second moon next week when a tiny asteroid begins its two month orbit around the planet, though researchers say the space rock likely won’t be visible without the ...

Since we cannot physically access the core — humans have only drilled 12km into the Earth — we rely almost entirely on seismology to understand our ... Feel free to send me an email or catch ...

Related: Planet Earth: Everything you need to know "Under normal circumstances, asteroids hitting Earth can hit at any latitude, at random, as we see in craters on the moon, Mars and Mercury ...

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

Prior research had shown that the asteroid was not on a collision course with Earth, and the researchers suspected it might instead become bound by the planet's gravity for a while. The ...

Unlike the moon, Earth's primary companion which has accompanied our planet for around 4 billion years, this "new mini-moon" will stick around for just two months before it heads back to its home ...

Trailblazer Jane Goodall teamed with sustainable jewelry line Brilliant Earth on a delicate new capsule collection featuring ...