Science fiction is an amazing and sometimes overlooked genre, giving audience members a way to process complex situations and thoughts. Unsurprisingly, when people picture sci-fi shows, they tend to ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say is one of the most “drastic events in the evolution of ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging anywhere from 10,000 years to 50 million years or more. Around 41,000 years ...

The Animated Series adapted several storylines and characters for the show, there were a few glaring omissions kept from the show.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.

The curious minds at What If imagine the catastrophic effects of a side-spinning Earth on our planet.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

A USC professor has confirmed what many scientists already believed: Rotation of the solid iron ball at Earth's center is slowing.

A USC professor has confirmed what many scientists already believed: Rotation of the solid iron ball at Earth's center is slowing.

A new study adds evidence to the idea that Earth's inner core is slowing its spin, though still rotating in the same direction as the planet. KATERYNA KON / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images ...

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For ...