The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...

The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science has reached out to Sotheby’s for confirmation of the sale price.

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle. ... according to a 2020 study in the journal Earth-Science Reviews.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Earth reaches aphelion every July, and this year it occurs on Thursday at 3:55 p.m. Eastern time. ... According to Kirby Runyon, a geologist at the Planetary Science Institute, ...