New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

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

By trapping trillions of gallons of water behind nearly 7,000 dams since 1835, enough to fill the Grand Canyon twice, humans have redistributed the planet’s mass enough to cause a phenomenon known as ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Runners participating in the North Pole Marathon are wasting no second of their training even if they are on a ship. Ahead of the annual marathon on July 13 (Sunday), the competitors have been ...

This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...

The construction of thousands of dams around the world since the 19th century has caused Earth’s poles to shift by more than 3.7 feet ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

The world's dams have quietly moved more than just water—their massive reservoirs have actually nudged Earth's poles by feet, according to new research that reveals how human engineering is subtly ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...