Scientists have raised concerns that the Earth's inner core may completely halt its rotation by 2040, according to a recent ...

Last week China announced that it is building the world's largest dam in Tibet - even larger than the Three Gorges Dam, which according to NASA, has slowed the Earth's rotation by 0.06 seconds.

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The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

What we are witnessing is nothing short of a revolution inside the U.S. government.” When Politico, normally the purveyor of Beltway both-siderism, sounds more alarmed than many Democrats ...

We’ve featured the position player group so far: catchers, infield and outfield. Now we turn to pitching. The Royals rotation’s 3.55 ERA was the second-best in baseball last year, quite the turnaround ...

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For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...

Fort Worth's quest to revive the U.S. rare earth magnet supply chain is now electric, as MP Materials powers up production at its new facility, aiming to wean the nation off its heavy reliance on ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has filled Earth orbit with space trash, from dead satellites to used-up rocket parts. The region is already so crowded that working ...