Why does the Earth spin ... We don’t know for sure whether it formed that way or got knocked over. Most scientists now think its spin has been reversed over time by tidal forces involving ...

Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world ...

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

The new research potentially plugs a big hole in the giant impact theory, long the leading explanation for the moon's formation ... A fast-spinning Earth One of the studies — by Matija Cuk ...

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet ... inner core to learn how Earth’s deep interior formed and how activity connects across all the ...

Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.

AUSTIN (KXAN) -A bit of news you didn’t expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth’s inner core has stopped spinning.

As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction ... So, astronomers believe Earth spins because the entire solar system was already rotating when Earth formed – but there are still ...