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 […] ...

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.

Reckoned by atomic seconds, however, Earth’s full journey around the sun took 31,622,401.14. As a result, two additional seconds were added: the very first “leap seconds".

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 ...

Recent scientific findings indicate a significant slowdown and reversal in the Earth's inner core rotation. This discovery, based on seismic wave analysis, sheds light on the core's behavior and ...

For a while, core and the Earth's rotation matched. Later, the rotation speed of the Earth's core reduced even more until it started moving in reverse direction.