China's Three Gorges Dam could be slowing down Earth's rotation, according to NASA scientists ... the massive scale of the project headed controversy as it required the relocation of 1.2 million ...

NASA has recently confirmed that the dam, which happens to be the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, has caused a small but measurable change to Earth’s rotation, resulting in our days being ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

Generally, there are two methods of defining time, one is based on the local passage of time as measured by atomic clocks, while the other relies on the exact measurement of Earth’s rotation.

An curved arrow pointing right. This time-lapse video of a star field has been edited to show the rotation of the Earth from the point of view of the stars. Footage courtesy of José Francisco ...

Since 1980, Earth's north and south poles have drifted about 13 feet. The poles are where the planet's surface intersects with its axis of rotation — the invisible line running through the ...