Learn how we know the Earth is round, and the science behind the shape of our gravitational field.

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 ...

Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is ...

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 ...

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America has been absolutely awash in conspiracy theories in recent years, and the emergence of new ones seems to have reanimated old ones that, for quite some time, seemed to have faded away. The ...

Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is round since the third century B.C. Man, 56, Is Diagnosed with Type 2 ...