The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's ...

It is the first time Earth's geological record has been used ... which you can see in the animation below. The work, led by ...

A simple animation created by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue puts the whole thing in perspective. "People often talk about how we are standing on a ball (Earth) which rotates at great speed ...

A Looney Tunes Movie” marks the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for release in theaters.

though since Earth moves around the sun at about 66,600 mph.) To illustrate what's going on during an equinox, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation (below) last year.

tracking its distance from Earth, apparent size relative to our planet, and the speed of its retreat over time. "My animations were made to show as instantly as possible the whole context of what ...