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Researcher Judit Györgyey-Ries says an asteroid about the size of the Statue of Liberty could hit us in October 2017

Black auroras are dark patches intertwined with the bright, colorful beams that often form over Earth's polar regions

Study finds evidence that our entire planet froze and turned into one great big snowball several times in its history

Interestingly, this might explain why it ended up being orbited by 8 planets and why life emerged on Earth

New research paper explains why the geological profile of our planet and that of its natural satellite are oddly alike

Physics student calculates how long it would take to fall through a tunnel connecting two opposite sides of the planet

Like onions and ogres, Earth has layers that are arranged in an orderly fashion and that each have unique properties

Scientists believe that, when the Solar System was still young, Jupiter swept through it like a wrecking ball

The impact zone associated with these ancient collisions measures about 400 kilometers (250 miles) across

This discovery explains why our planet's mantle packs a heck lot of this chemical compound, scientists argue

Researchers with Princeton University and colleagues say earthquakes can reveal the structure of Earth's mantle

The bad news is this awesome cosmic event will be visible in all its glory only from the North Atlantic Ocean

Astronomers say signals previously argued to be stellar bursts are, in fact, coming from an Earth-like planet

Scientists suspect that, in its youth, the Sun produced flares strong enough to move through our planet's atmosphere

In doing so, they can even encourage or pull the plug on the emergence and evolution of alien lifeforms

Astronomers say the planet's surface is heated to about 1,800 degrees Celsius (nearly 3300 degrees Fahrenheit)

Astronomers say evidence indicates that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, holds dark matter in its innermost region