Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the ...

is messing with the Earth's rotation to the point that we might need to adjust for a "negative leap second." The effects of climate change can be seen everywhere, in the global refugee crisis ...

China has a plan to build the world's largest hydropower dam, breaking its own record held by the Three Gorges Dam, but India ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

The atmosphere would still be moving at the original speed of the Earth's rotation. This means that everything would be swept off of land, including people, buildings and even trees, topsoil and ...

Scientists have raised concerns that the Earth's inner core may completely halt its rotation by 2040, according to a recent paper published in Nature. The study suggests changes are occurring deep ...

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John Vidale, Dean's Professor of Earth Sciences at the USC Dornsife College ... the USC scientists were tracking how our planet's inner core speed of rotation is decreasing, because previous ...

Two NASA astronauts are heading home on a SapceX ship after about nine months at the International Space Station.

Recent seismic data from 121 earthquakes recorded over three decades challenges previous beliefs about Earth's inner core ... studying the core's slowing rotation, could of ...

It takes 24 hours for the Earth to complete a full rotation:and when it does, half of the Earth is exposed to the light of the sun,and the other half is in shadow. Earth is tilted at a 23.5 degree ...

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are returning to Earth in a SpaceX capsule after technical problems left them extending their stay on the International Space Station.