The Earth’s core is comprised of metals and, as the name suggests, makes up the interior of the Earth. It consists of a ...

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

Can a movement many feet below our feet quietly change the Earth’s rotation? Over 3,000 miles below the ground, the Earth’s ...

Recent observations have confirmed that the Earth’s rotation is gradually accelerating, causing days to become fractionally ...

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.

As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and ...

A huge reservoir nestling in the heart of the Three Gorges Dam is to blame for the disruptive patterns in Earth's rotation.

The study highlights how longer days allowed cyanobacteria to photosynthesise more oxygen because their activity depends not ...

Earth completed a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, 5 August. That makes it one of the shortest days of 2025 at 86,399.99867 seconds long. How that happens, and how we can ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...