Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

If it feels like summer is flying by, science says you’re not imagining it. Starting Wednesday, Earth is literally spinning ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...