A frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world was to stop spinning. As we all know (and if you don’t, give ...

But what if the Earth did stop spinning. To put it mildly, it would be terrible and mean almost certain death for all humans and almost all animals. If you are at the equator, you ...

The video shows the Earth over the course of an entire year, and it’s mesmerizing. I suggest you listen to the narration while you watch, done by EPIC lead scientist Jay Herman.

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

Gif animation showing Earth spinning, there is a little graphic in the top right corner that reads "space mysteries". 35,725 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

Earth's inner core may have paused and reversed its spin, a new study suggests.; Earthquakes and nuclear blasts can send seismic waves through the mysterious solid-iron core. Those waves hint that ...

This animation shows a Sun-like star orbiting Gaia BH1, the closest black hole to Earth, located about 1600 light-years away. (Credit: T. Müller [MPIA], PanSTARRS DR1 [K. C. Chambers et al. 2016 ...

In a bit of news you didn’t expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth’s inner core has stopped spinning. Scientis… ...