The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago when certain bacteria started releasing a large quantity of oxygen into the Earth.

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

water that was once concentrated at the top and the bottom of the globe is getting redistributed toward the equator. The extra mass around Earth’s middle slows its rotation, which in turn has a ...

However, the increase isn't consistent across the globe. The Earth's rotation pushes more meltwater toward the equator and away from polar regions. "This means that a shift in mass is taking place ...

Whether through the Moon’s tidal friction, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or tectonic drifts, the Earth’s rotation has been ... in deep space and around the globe. While the natural ...

The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than ... as well as data from several nuclear tests around the globe, to reach their conclusions. Breaking space news, the latest updates ...

It may now be admitted as settled that if the earth be perfectly rigid the climate of our globe could never possibly have been affected by any change in the axis of rotation. But it is maintained ...

How the earth’s rotation taught me to find peace in the face of death.

Earth’s rotation has been measured many times over — but never like this. In a first, scientists used entangled quantum particles called photons to reveal the rate at which the globe spins.

Regarding the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects for the purposes of amateur astronomy, some coordinates change and some do not (except over very long periods of time). Objects ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient ...