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Earth’s Biosphere: Hands-on Activities for Upper Elementary Students

The Earth’s biosphere is the sphere that students are already part of, making it a great anchor for teaching Earth’s systems. Every organism on the planet, from the bacteria in......

Earth’s Spheres Activities for Elementary Students: A Complete Resource Guide

When students learn about Earth’s spheres, they’re learning to see the planet as a system rather than a collection of separate facts. The atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and bi...

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Speeding up, slowing down, capturing amazing views, making discoveries — all thanks to planets.

The Climate Physics of Planet Earth

Building Earth is a new interactive map that explains how the Earth's climate has developed over millions of years through the lens of physics. The map strips the planet back to it...

ESA selects two new scout-class missions

When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based im...

THE EARTH EXPERIMENT

The Timetable

An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet

The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time.

An astronaut's view of Argentina's snow-capped mountains | Space photo of the day for May 20, 2026

Earth is so beautiful from afar.

Planetary Science

Gravitational Pull

We think and dream and fuss and project entire worlds into existence. Meanwhile, the earth’s orbit continues and the sun goes on shining.

WATCH: A Spacecraft Is Launching to Study How Earth Survives Solar Storms

The first-ever X-ray observations of our planet's magnetic field. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, s...

'This is the future of spatial intelligence': Vantor unveils stunning 3D satellite views of Earth (photos)

The American Earth-observation company Vantor is now mapping Earth from space in 3D, and the images are stunning.

Why Manhattanhenge Matters Beyond the Sunset

Manhattanhenge is a reminder that we live on a tilted, rotating planet orbiting something much larger—a perspective scientists link to stronger spatial awareness and environmental...

ESA Selects Two New Scout-Class Missions

When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based im...

Astronauts watch from space as ice splinters from a glacier | Space photo of the day for June 11, 2026

Changes in the Southern Patagonia Icefield can be seen from space

Summer solstice seen from space | Space photo of the day for June 25, 2026

Just after the summer solstice, a European weather satellite managed to capture a striking image of this celestial moment from space.

An Orbiting Satellite Triad Reveals Motions Inside Earth

Our planet's liquid iron outer core is slowly giving up its secrets to a trio of satellites launched by ESA in 2013. Called Swarm, the three probes have been studying Earth's magne...

Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) | Space photo of the day for May 26, 2026

Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) | Space photo of the day for May 26, 2026

Inspiring STEM Books for Kids

Avoid the summer slide with these fun and engaging STEM books for young readers. *****...

Take a trip to the turquoise waters of the Bahamas (from space) | Space photo of the day for July 9, 2026

Can you hear the waves?

Quite the journey

A planet’s path around the Sun, a quasi-moon tagging along, and your name a million miles away.

Neon green auroras from space will take your breath away | Space photo of the day for June 26, 2026

This is truly a view like no other.

Chang'e-5 regolith studies reveal nanoscale space-weathering processes

On the moon, the lack of atmosphere and accompanying features such as biological activity, oxygen-rich air, flowing water and rain, wind, and most erosion allows the lunar regolith...

Video: Preparing Smile for space

Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of radiation from the sun, the spacecraft had to complete an extraordinary journey here on...