For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

Earth's days are slowly getting longer. This change is driven by the Moon's gravity and shifts in Earth's mass due to melting ...

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

Once every 24 hours, Earth completes one rotation on its axis, marking one day on our planet. This reliable rotational period is what allowed humans to develop systems to tell time and what signals to ...

A billion years ago, days lasted 19 hours: the balance between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Moon slowed down the Earth ...

NEW YORK, July 8: In the coming weeks, Earth is expected to rotate slightly faster than usual, causing several days to be marginally shorter. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 ...

Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion years ago, and it will continue to do so ...

The Earth's magnetic field controls the direction and speed at which Earth's inner and outer cores spin, even though they move in opposite directions, new research suggests. Scientists have long ...

We’ve covered how to prove that the earth revolves around the sun, just in case you’re sent back in time. Now your patrons grow impatient. What have you done for them lately? Keep the grog flowing by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. we have had periods over the last century where greater numbers of more ...