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 ...
A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection introduces the Sun as the main source of light and heat on Earth. It explains that the Earth ...
In honor of Earth Day, the Giraffe Blog has put together 50 awesome facts about space, the atmosphere, the sea, and what's under the earth. It's an easy reminder that our Blue Marble is an ...
The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...
Narrator: 4 and a half billion years ago, clouds of cosmic dust and gas which were orbiting the Sun collided into one another, creating the Earth, our planet, the home of mankind. It spins at 1000 ...
Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The Snowball Earth hypothesis is still debated among scientists. Some argue that the planet may not have been ...