Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and ...

We tend to think of Earth as familiar and predictable. Same sky, same ground, same oceans. But once you start digging into ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

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The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.