This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built across the world, Earth's poles have tilted by over 1 meter (3 feet). The ...

Now, as the moon moves towards the Earth’s poles and away from its equator, the spinning speed is expected to increase further. Keeping this in mind, it has been observed that July 9, July 22, and ...

The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

The summer of 2025 has been very warm to hot across much of the western U.S. Here in Coeur d’Alene, we’ve already had six days with high temperatures at or above the 90-degree mark. Our hottest day ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted orbit.