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.

Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. This year, tidbits about ...

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 ...

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

This might be one of the best fun facts about pi: This French luxury perfume ... only up to 15 decimal places for its robotic space and Earth science missions. “For JPL’s highest-accuracy ...