Recent observations have revealed an intriguing phenomenon: the Earth is spinning faster on its axis than it has in recorded history. Scientists around the globe have noted that this acceleration ...

Let’s start with the basics, like: How fast does the Earth spin now? That depends on where you are, because the planet moves fastest ... disastrous to life on the globe.” ...

When the survivors come to at the bottom of their fall, they find themselves in an unusual but strangely familiar world ... the planet. What’s really happening is the entire Earth is spinning ...

Three thousand and one hundred miles below the soil of the Earth ... our planet’s inner core rotates furiously, locked in a sort of harmonious spin with the rest of the world in concert.

The inner core can spin ... across the globe over the last 28 years, researchers confirmed that the inner core’s rotation relative to the Earth’s mantle — the bulk of the planet’s interior ...

Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) and is mostly round because gravity generally pulls matter into a ball. But the spin of our home planet causes it to be squashed at ...