As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

Because oxygen seeps (diffuses) out of mats slowly, the timing of sunlight becomes a big deal. Short days mean the sun sets ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a ring laser that tracks Earth's axis movements without telescopes or satellites.

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling ...

To find out how fast the Earth is spinning at all, you need to find a reference frame in which, ideally, nothing is moving.

A sudden halt to Earth's rotation, though improbable, would trigger catastrophic events. Inertia would cause widespread ...

Climate change is causing so much polar ice melt that it's slowing down Earth's rotation and it will alter how we measure time in the future.

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

If Earth turns at (say) 1000 kilometres per hour at London’s latitude, why not, when you want to travel, just go straight up and wait for your destination to rotate around until it is beneath you?

For a while, the scientists reported, the core’s rotation matched Earth’s spin. Then it slowed even more, until the core was moving backward relative to the fluid layers around it.