Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This 2014 image of a tropical storm from the International Space Station clearly shows Earth's curvature. NOAA/Getty Images An ...

The first images showing the curvature of Earth from space were not captured on April Fool’s Day in 1960. Some people are sharing this false claim online with the wider idea that it discredits ...

New science discoveries can change. However, rarely does a scientific belief flip and convert back to a theory from thousands of years ago. For some, that is exactly what has happened when it comes to ...

We all know the Earth is round. Not perfectly so but close enough. We live on an oblate spheroid, a slightly squashed sphere that's wider at the equator than around the poles. The difference between ...

A Jan. 3 Instagram video shows what appears to be a cellphone video panning between the sun and moon in a cloudless sky in the daytime. "The sun doesn't illuminate the moon. The moon is its own light.

Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field generated by electric currents from within the planet. Compasses take advantage of this field to identify north and serve as a navigational aid. But one social ...

Earth's shape is an oblate spheroid, slightly bulging at the equator due to its rotation, resulting in a significant difference in distance from the Earth's center between the equator and poles. This ...