Understanding Earth's Rotation Earth's rotation is the invisible hand that influences many aspects of our daily lives. It takes about 24 hours for Earth to complete one full spin around its axis. This ...
In 2025, around 120 SpaceX Starlink satellites re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and burnt up upon descent. These artificial ...
World's Oldest Impact Crater Found, Rewriting Earth's Ancient History Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...
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In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...
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NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with their sunward side getting warmed up before spinning ...
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter ... shifting won’t directly affect life on Earth. Over time, changes to this innermost layer ...
Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a ... a seismologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Live Science. "The only thing that we know of these is ...
Host Ira Flatow talks with author Dr. Neil Shubin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, about some of the wonders found at the ends of the Earth, and the threats they’re facing. IRA ...