By the End of the Century, Climate Change Could Affect Earth's Rotation More Than the Moon, Scientists Warn ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that climate change is now lengthening Earth’s days at a rate that could soon exceed the slowing effect of ...

Looking out to the future, we see a gradual but also very important shift occurring right under our feet; the Earth's own ...

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.

There’s a new moon rising in the sign of dreams, drugs, romantic delusion, poetry, Pina Coladas, trap doors, and ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at record speeds, causing GPS timing errors and navigation delays on your ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

It’s rare but some eclipses cause stunning Instagram-worthy visual effects like devil horns, a Cheshire cat smile or diamond ...

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

Earth has been around for 4.543 billion years. At numerous times during that long history, our planet has shared itself with the rest of the Solar System, particularly with our immediate neighbors. Sc ...

NASA once sent over 2,000 jellyfish into space to study how gravity affects biological development. The unusual experiment ...