A sudden halt to Earth’s spin would unleash destructive winds, quakes, and tsunamis while ending the protective magnetic ...

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

The sudden stop would create enormous stresses in Earth’s crust, triggering earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude everywhere simultaneously. The tectonic plates would shift violently, and the ground ...

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, Fear and Joy stand with me in every enterprise; Embracing all of my emotions ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

This month, I will focus on what I believe is the most important driver of climate change away from human behaviour. Read ...

Time can be a controversial business. Who came up with time zones – and why is the International Date Line a bit squiggly?

The Octagon Earthworks here speak to us from 2,000 years ago — and they speak to the fraught cultural moment in which we find ...

Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...

In recent years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has given us a close-up look at the sun. Among the probe's revelations was the ...

Earth's support systems are facing environmental and social strains of unprecedented magnitude, according to the stark ...