As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...

The day has become 0.06 microseconds longer, and the Earth's axis has shifted by about 2 cm due to the Chinese Three Gorges ...

A team of researchers has linked Earth's slowing rotation to the Great Oxidation Event, which made the planet more habitable ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...

Joking about it, some people online wondered if we could use this slow-down to get an extra long weekend or joked that “we ...

IN the Philosophical Magazine (6), 8, 716, 1904, an experiment was described, designed to test the effect of the earth's rotation on the velocity of light. In consequence of atmospheric ...

Astronomers confirm Uranus’ rotation period using internal oscillation ... Unlike on Mars and Earth, savage windstorms make it far more difficult to identify the rot... Recent seismic data ...

According to NASA scientists, the huge amount of water held back by the dam has shifted the distribution of Earth’s mass.

But not to worry: Such an event would require the same amount of energy stored in the momentum of everything on our rotating planet, says Jim Zimbelman, a geologist in the Center for Earth and ...

Every second, the Earth spins silently through space ... While people go about their daily routines, the planet is in perpetual motion, rotating through its own magnetic field.