Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day.

The world's largest hydroelectric dam, which opened in 2003, is so vast that it actually has an effect on the spin on the Earth.

You are most likely contributing to the earth’s shifting rotation tilting, just because you use your sink. A study by researchers in South Korea found that the earth has rotated 31.5 inches in ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

The United States satellite images displayed are infrared (IR ... wide area of the earth. Due to the rotation of the earth the satellite is able to view every spot on earth twice each day.

NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential ...

The speed of rotation of the earth has slowed down thus increasing the time of one day by 0.06 microseconds, i.e. now the day has become a bit longer. Even the North and South Poles have shifted 2-2 ...

It came against a long-term background of a gradual slowing of Earth’s rotation, caused by the the ebb and flow of tides, the flow of magma, the melting of ice caps and other factors that ...