Snaking for nearly 4,000 miles, the waters of China’s Yangtze River are unfathomable, untamed. In the past, these waters have unleashed some of the greatest catastrophes upon the population living ...

Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

Warming global temperatures, caused by heat-trapping air pollution, have led to the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Antarctica. In a new study published in Nature Communications, ...

Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. 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. First, ...

Spring, summer, fall and winter—the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It's easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three Gorges Dam actually did make the days longer, by slowing the rotation of the ...

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Using the corrected coordinates, the team derived new accurate measurements of Earth's rotation speed in the 8th to 6th centuries BCE. The study revealed that delta T (ΔT), a parameter for Earth's ...

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