NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 ...

Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...

Earth Rotation Day is being observed globally today (Wednesday). The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis ...

The Three Gorges Dam's reservoir, which holds a staggering 40 billion cubic meters of water, leads to a substantial ...

AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it ...

When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind ...

The world's largest hydroelectric dam, which opened in 2003, is so vast that it actually has an effect on the spin on the ...

The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...

When organizations declare a “true north”, they often align strategies to this single point. Yet Gallup research shows ...

The Earth has always had a tilt to its axis of 23.5 degrees, which is why we have seasons and daylight saving time. But if ...

"Any living being with a set of lungs is susceptible because of the air particles," Blea said. "Thoroughbred racehorses do ...