Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers are melting at such a rate it’s changing the way the Earth spins, causing it to wobble off ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

The Moon is slowly spinning away from Earth and an expert has explained that this could have devastating effects ...

Scientists already knew that melting glaciers could change the planet’s rotation. But this study shows that groundwater ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles could shift up to 89 feet (27 meters) by 2100 as the planet's axis of rotation ...