We’ve long known that humanity could change ecosystems. Now we know we can tilt the planet itself. According to NASA, ...

There's a giant dam in China which is slowing down the Earth's rotation and satellite images of the Three Gorges had some ...

Deep in China’s Hubei province, a structure designed to tame nature may also be nudging the planet’s rotation. The Three ...

UTC relies on atomic clocks but still keeps pace with the planet’s rotation. But as the rotation speed is not constant, the two timescales slowly diverge. This means a “leap second” must be ...

As rising global temperatures melt Earth’s polar ice sheets, the shifting water is creating such a huge redistribution of our planet’s mass that its rotation speed is dropping. This unusual ...

According to NASA research, the Three Gorges Dam's water accumulation could potentially : ・Shift the Earth's pole position by ...

And a new study from scientists in China says the core has actually slowed its rotation. It's just the latest attempt to describe what's going on at the very center of the planet, a part of the ...

Climate change is causing widespread global impacts, but now scientists are finding that it's altering the very planet itself. Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever ...

“Differential rotation of the inner core was proposed ... and how a slowdown of the inner core might affect our planet is still an open question — though some experts say Earth’s magnetic ...

Several key factors affect the planet’s spin — sometimes working in opposition. The friction of ocean tides, due in part to the moon’s gravitational pull, slows the Earth’s rotation.

Here’s how it works. Once every 24 hours, Earth completes one rotation on its axis, marking one day on our planet. This reliable rotational period is what allowed humans to develop systems to ...

If precise enough, the measurements of the rotation with all of the wobbles place constraints on the structure and composition of the very deep parts of the planet, Dr. Le Maistre said.