Although we can't feel Earth ... might have rammed into Venus to prompt its backward spin. Now they know that Venus' thick atmosphere is likely to blame. According to NASA, the planet's carbon ...

The sun's distance from Earth ... around the sun. Like a wobble of a spinning top, the perihelion point slides around the barycenter with every subsequent orbit. The perihelions of all planets ...

researchers found that Earth’s inner core has been slowing down in relation to the planet’s surface since 2010. The paper concludes that the slowing is the result of the churning of the liquid ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

The climate crisis has ... Earth's rotation on its axis and the sun's position in the sky — what's called the solar timescale. But the solar timescale is not very precise because the planet's ...

But why is the Earth spinning faster? Scientists are not completely certain, but they have a few competing explanations ... core that shifts mass on the planet. Ocean circulation and pressure ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

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 ...