Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one ...

Scientists are also investigating changes in the rotation of the Earth's inner core. They suspect that couplings with the Earth's mantle could contribute to ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

If you're in the right plane, can you start out in daylight and circle the Earth without ever seeing darkness? Sure, you can ... but you'll need plenty of fuel.

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

What if the Earth just... stopped spinning? This video dives into a terrifying thought experiment: what would happen to our planet, our weather, and human life if the Earth's rotation came to a halt, ...

A 250-day experiment using a ring laser achieved unprecedented accuracy in measuring Earth's axial wobble (nutation and precession), surpassing previous gyroscope and ring laser technologies by a ...

As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in ...

Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by ...

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...