Geologists discovered "gigantic fortresses" under the Earth's crust, which have provided insight into the workings of the ...

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

Scientists found that large-scale dam building since 1835 shifted Earth's poles over a meter and significantly lowered sea ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Earth is expected to spin slightly faster on three specific days in July and August: July 9, July 22 and August 5. This could ...

Earth is expected to spin faster than usual in the upcoming weeks, leading to slightly shorter days, scientists report, ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...