Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Earth's rotation is the invisible hand that influences many aspects of our daily lives. It takes about 24 hours for Earth to complete one full spin around its axis. This rotation is why we ...

The Moon is slowly spinning away from Earth and an expert has explained that this could have devastating effects ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure ... A recent study in Nature Geoscience points to changes that ...

But why is the Earth spinning faster? Scientists are not completely certain, but they have a few competing explanations: Changes to the climate or climate systems, such as melting and freezing of ...

followed by tsunamis generated by the displacement of oceans previously held in check by the planet's spin. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson starkly predicts that a momentary stop in Earth's ...

and it's still spinning faster. 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 ...

Mega-buildings and dams like China’s Three Gorges Dam are subtly shifting Earth’s rotation. With its 40 billion cubic meters of water, the dam affects our planet’s spin, adding 0.06 ...