Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has brought records for the shortest day ever, with Earth’s spin accelerating by ...

As if it's not already hard enough to find the time to do everything you need to do in a day, now you're about to lose another whole millisecond or more. In fact, experts say Tuesday, July 22, could ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in recent memory as a result, slicing ...

The planet's seasons are not as immutable as previously thought. Turns out there are parts of the world that have different seasonal timing than those regions even just a short distance away. This ...

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As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand Selva]’s ...

Calendars found in homes across the country usually say winter begins on Dec. 21, when in reality the season starts three weeks earlier on Dec. 1.