The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three ...

Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...

In less than 20 years, Earth’s axis has shifted by 31.5 inches. The culprit? Groundwater pumped from deep underground and ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

They recreate how a camera would see objects traveling at 99.9% of the speed of light, revealing surprising relativistic ...

Surprisingly, at least to me, there are still climate change skeptics out there who either don’t believe that the climate is ...

NASA images show asteroid 2025 OW spinning at extreme speed, improving its orbit forecast and revealing surface details only ...

A new study of the red dwarf system TOI-3884 has uncovered rare, persistent spot-crossing signals that reveal unusually detailed information about the star’s magnetic activity and the planet’s orbital ...

We also show how sea-level rise from Antarctica varies around the world. In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the ...