Quartz, made up of silica and oxygen, is one of the most common minerals on Earth. Billions of people use
It has been an eventful year for space enthusiasts, with it seeming like a new asteroid is announced every week,
As updates roll in from Russia and the meteorite-related injury toll rises, you may be scrambling to remember what
Google has made a doodle for Earth’s close shave with Asteroid 2012 DA14, which will pass by the planet tonight.
With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000. Shown here, global temperature anomalies (above or below the average) averaged from 2008 through 2012.
Jan. 2 marks the time when the Earth is at perihelion, the point in its orbit at which it is
NASA released some of the most spectacular nighttime views of the Earth ever seen from space. According to NASA spokesperson
