Interesting facts about Earth you might not know ©Getty Images Earth serves as our fragile and precious home. As far as scientists are aware, it's the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

Sound as we know it does not exist in space. That’s because, on Earth, sound mainly travels to our ears via vibrating air molecules. Because space is a vacuum, meaning there is no matter at all ...

Brr! But in sunlight near Earth, temperatures can swing to a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit. That's why astronauts wear reflective white spacesuits. Unimpeded, light can move at 299,792,458 meters ...

Rainforests in these regions cover just 2% of Earth's total surface area and yet house half of the world's plant and animal species. Deforestation is the clearing of forests. Most deforestation ...

Winter might be seen as a cold period marked by dark days. But there's still a lot of interesting things going on between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Leader Publishing Company of Salem ...

'The Eye of the Earth' refers to the Cetina river spring in Croatia, a natural karst spring considered a remarkable geological feature ...