Due to the way Earth's rotation is measured, Wednesday, July 9 will technically lose time. Here's why you most likely won't ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

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

Shooting stars look like they’re falling toward us, diving across the sky in a straight-down streak. But if they’re actually […] ...

Space brings threat and opportunity in equal measure, but knowledge is power, says renowned astrophysicist ahead of 10th ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that Earth had started spinning in the opposite direction. The sun would rise in the west, set in the ... Read more The post What If Earth Rotated Backward?

They then oriented the cylinder in a north-south direction set at a 57° angle. That made it perpendicular to both the Earth's rotational motion and the Earth's magnetic field.

In 2009-2010, the rotation of the Earth's inner core completely stopped. After such events, the inner core is expected to resume rotation, presumably in the same direction as the Earth itself.

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made ...

If the calculations are correct, the speed should start to increase in about 10 years. The apparent slowdown in the core's rotation, which began around 2010, may be due to the constant motion of the ...