Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic ...

Have you ever wondered why we always see the same side of the Moon? Although it may seem like the Moon doesn't rotate, it does,just in a very special way. This phenomenon is called synchronous ...

Have you ever wondered why we always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we are on Earth? While the Moon appears ...

Late July is a great time to get acquainted with the Little Dipper, also called Ursa Minor. Face north as soon as it gets ...

Building dams has quietly tilted Earth’s axis by three feet, shifting poles and slowing rotation. A hidden planetary cost of ...

Did you feel that? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

Boldly etched into the flow of solidifying lava across Earth, the Matuyama-Brunhes event is used by geologists as a marker of ...