Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Earth’s inner core is changing shape, scientists have found.

It also has ... heat around the planet that its surface can reach 900 F (482 C). On Mercury, the hot days are also incredibly long. Because Mercury rotates so slowly — once every 58 Earth ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Leader, columnist Orville Moe, writer of “In a science-minded world, a reason to thank God,” says: “… thank God for all his gifts to us on this small and insignificant planet ...

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 ...

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 ...