Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, traveled today to Central Texas to visit sites along the Guadalupe River ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

The Earth is predicted to make its fastest rotations on July 9, July 10, July 22 and August 5, according to a Time and Date ...

This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

I n February 2025, a group of geophysicists published a study that suggests changes are underway in the Earth's inner core. Already in 2023, we learned that the rotational direction of our planet's ...

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

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

Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...