According to the news, our planet's core has stopped spinning and will soon reverse. What's really happening is a lot less exciting, but still pretty neat.

Looking for worlds around other stars shows us just how weird and unusual our planet really is in the grand scheme of things.

Determining the tallest mountains on Earth seems like a fairly straightforward task, but it actually depends on which mountains you measure and how you measure them...

Knowing how life started right here at home can tell us how likely it is to sprout on another world.

Apparently middle aged planets also gain mass around their equators according to an amateur geologist very passionate about his epiphany.

Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...

Jupiter may have once again saved us from an asteroid impact. But next time, it might steer one our way...

Don't panic, but despite a thick atmosphere with a large magnetic field, the Earth is losing a lot more gasses to the solar wind than we think it should...