Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...

As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction that the earth actually spins. There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis.

Wow, maybe we really should reverse Earth's rotation! But hold on. If the Trade Winds reverse direction, it means that other wind patterns change too. Including the Prevailing Westerlies that ...

It was the first satisfactory demonstration of the earth's rotation using laboratory apparatus rather than astronomical observations. If you start a Foucault Pendulum swinging in one direction, after ...

Intriguingly, assuming that the system would work and would be scaled up to meet the demands of the entire planet, the Earth's rotational spin would only slow by seven milliseconds over the next ...

While Earth is, on average, pretty reliable and takes 86,400 seconds to rotate around its axis, this is not perfect. ”When highly accurate atomic clocks were developed in the 1960s, they showed ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

"That is because the motion of the Earth within the Milky Way galaxy leads to small changes in the brightness of the galaxies that we observe. Galaxies that rotate in the opposite direction ...

They also predicted a high probability of being perturbed into its current near-Earth orbit by gravitational interactions with Jupiter. Its retrograde spin direction suggests it may have migrated ...