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 ...

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.

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in England recorded the shortest day ever on June 29 and another shortened day on July 26, according to Popular Mechanics, a science and technology ...

Researchers looking at seismic waves believe the Earth’s inner core may be in a 70-year-cycle where it spins in one direction and stops, before spinning ... having been formed only 1bn years ...

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 ...