We’re talking about the Three Gorges Dam—an enormous hydroelectric project built across the ... like the Three Gorges Dam to slow Earth’s rotation enough to add a full second to the year.

However, NASA has stated that one man-made structure in China is so massive that it may have affected the Earth's rotation ... The Three Gorges project was approved in 1993.

Graduation Day should be a monumental day for teens, and deservingly so: It’s their first step into adulthood (and yes, the ...

Peer launched Global Simulation, a real-time digital Earth where players use avatars to connect by location and build relationships in a living, spatial network.

A 1989 flight through Hurricane Hugo tops the list for stomach-churning turbulence experienced by scientists, pilots, and crew aboard aircraft designed to fly through storms.

Astronomers discover many asteroids and comets each year, some of which are near-Earth objects (NEOs) that move through the ...

The new 3D tour adds depth cues so viewers can sense soaring peaks ... visualization scientist Frank Summers, who heads the AstroViz Project that crafted the sequence. The piece forms part of a longer ...

Earth Rotation Day was observed globally on Wednesday. The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis which is crucial for defining time and shape of life. Earth rotates on its axis, an ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from ...