Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic symmetry can cancel energy loss.

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

A sudden halt to Earth’s spin would unleash destructive winds, quakes, and tsunamis while ending the protective magnetic ...

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.

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...

China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

Richard Gordon, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geophysics in Rice University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and ...

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, ...