The heart of our planet has been spinning unusually slowly for the past 14 years, new research confirms. And if this mysterious trend continues, it could potentially lengthen Earth's days — though the ...

Can a movement many feet below our feet quietly change the Earth’s rotation? Over 3,000 miles below the ground, the Earth’s ...

A team of researchers led by Philip Walther at the University of Vienna carried out a pioneering experiment where they measured the effect of the rotation of Earth on quantum entangled photons. The ...

A sudden halt to Earth's rotation, though improbable, would trigger catastrophic events. Inertia would cause widespread ...

Recently, astronomers at the Haleakalā Observatory in Hawaii discovered a new "quasi-satellite" of Earth—2025 PN7. This asteroid shares a similar orbit with Earth, and from our perspective, it appears ...

Earth will be hosting a "mini-moon" starting this weekend. Also sometimes called a "second moon," the small asteroid will rotate Earth for several months. The existence of the asteroid, formally named ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - NASA announced that an asteroid will begin to orbit Earth as a "mini-moon" for nearly two months beginning September 29. Researchers discovered the celestial object in ...

Gather your little ones for story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read "The Day the Earth Stopped Spinning," an original story about the orbiting and ...

During the Cold War, when a nuclear war between the US and Soviet Union did not appear out of the question, the US Air Force looked into an unusual defense strategy. According to Daniel Ellsberg, a ...