The Three Gorges Dam in China continues to modify the Earth's rotation. This gigantic project, considered the largest in the ...

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

(Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the ...

Megastructures have big impacts on the world - namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one structure may be doing even more.

China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...

More than a decade of satellite monitoring has mapped Earth’s magnetic field as it subtly altered between 2014 and 2025 — and ...

If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

Scientists announced Monday that Earth is rotating slightly faster than normal, resulting in what is expected to become the second-shortest day ever recorded since precise atomic timekeeping began.

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why. The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the ...

Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...

Venus is often known as Earth’s twin because it is the closest planet to Earth in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...