In NBC’s science fiction drama La Brea (now streaming on Peacock!), a sinkhole opens up under the La Brea Tar Pits, swallowing a few hundred people along with buildings, vehicles, and whatever else ...

If the atmosphere were not dragged with our planet, you could utilize the insane relative wind speeds to decrease flight time, but you'd probably not be concerned with such problems as "long flights" ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Earth's core may have slowed its rotation before completely switching directions around more than a decade ago, scientists suggested in a new study. In a report published in ...

Earth’s rotation patterns may have shifted more than a decade ago without any of us noticing. According to a newly published study, researchers have spent the last 60 years examining seismic waves ...

A 2003 film titled The Core depicted a scenario in which disasters happened across the Earth because the planet’s core stopped spinning. Could this now be happening in real life? Some people are ...

As the polar ice caps melt, the Earth actually slows down, California scientists say. Less ice at the Earth's poles and more water weight spread around to other places are leading to the planet ...

Earth’s core has long been a place of mystery to scientists. The core of our planet sits just over 1,800 miles below the surface and exists as a ball of seething hot metal, specifically iron and ...

Reversing Earth’s rotation would cause immediate catastrophic waves and winds, while long-term climate patterns would shift, ...

Research published in the journal Nature Geoscience said Earth's core nearly stopped rotating around 2009, before turning in the opposite direction Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports ...