The Three Gorges Dam in China continues to modify the Earth's rotation. This gigantic project, considered the largest in the ...

If you're seated while reading these words — as I am writing them — you're most likely convinced that you and the room around ...

Daylight will soon start disappearing remarkably fast. With the winding down of summer comes that familiar shortening of daylight hours until we reach the autumn equinox, one of two points in our ...

It sounds like a sci-fi plot, but it’s a cold, hard scientific fact: our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon, is slowly moving ...

Building dams has quietly tilted Earth’s axis by three feet, shifting poles and slowing rotation. A hidden planetary cost of ...

THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...

A 250-day experiment using a ring laser achieved unprecedented accuracy in measuring Earth's axial wobble (nutation and precession), surpassing previous gyroscope and ring laser technologies by a ...

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. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...