SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...

The familiar 24‑hour day is based on how long it takes the Sun to return to the same position in our sky, not on an ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

Earth's days are slowly getting longer. This change is driven by the Moon's gravity and shifts in Earth's mass due to melting ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

On this list, you'll find some weird incidents on Earth, a bit of Russian space drama and, of course, that little ...

For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

Earth's rotation on its axis is the fundamental reason for the cycle of day and night. As our planet spins, one side faces the Sun, experiencing dayli ...

The Earth's North Pole isn't just one place, it's actually two. Now, a researcher has revealed that one of those North Poles ...

Astronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so ...