Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...
The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's ...
Esri, a spatial analytics firm based in California, has put together a animated map of California wildfires over the last century. Watch how quickly COVID-19 is spreading around the U.S. and world ...
An curved arrow pointing right. The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable ...
That's because the Earth is orbiting the sun ... which is barreling through the cosmic wind of radiation released during the Big Bang. A simple animation created by planetary scientist James ...
The solar wind is a steady stream of charged particles—mostly protons and electrons—that come from the sun. H + ions, which are simply protons, are the most abundant particles in the solar ...
New research suggests that the sun's relentless solar wind could've played a role. Scientists have worked hard to understand how Earth has so much life-giving water. There's lots of research ...