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 ...

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

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth completed its rotation approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds faster than ...

Earth’s climate has never been static,it moves in long, predictable cycles shaped by powerful forces far beyond our control.

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

July 9 was predicted to have a shorter "length of day" than usual due to an increase in Earth's rotation speed. See which ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

With a dwindling number of exceptions, they are also no longer expected to pass high-level tests in order to prove that they ...