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, 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Earth’s rotation will speed up slightly on July 9, 22, and August 5, shortening each day by over a millisecond.

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

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows the shift happened in two phases: 1835–1954: Dams in North America and Europe nudged the pole toward Russia and China. 1954–2011: Dams in ...

Most people think a day on Earth is just the time it takes for the planet to make one full rotation on its axis, but that’s ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...