This 2014 image of a tropical storm from the International Space Station clearly shows Earth's curvature. NOAA/Getty Images An average adult is between 5 feet and 6 feet 6 inches tall (1.5 to 2 meters ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The flat-Earth believer "Mad" Mike Hughes postponed his plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket thousands of feet in the air—but there is plenty of evidence that already reveals the Earth is ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson recently called out flat-earthers in one tweet: It's not just lunar eclipses that would look different if Earth were actually flat. Sports, plants, and even the oceans would be ...

CBS Local --A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren't convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group ...

Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

The president of the Spanish soccer club that changed its name to promote the "Flat Earth" conspiracy theory slammed his critics on Spanish radio station Cadena Ser Monday. Javi Poves—who changed ...

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 ...