Climate change has become “that” topic – like evolution of species, plate tectonics, or AI – where the public has heard so ...

An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

Earth’s once-balanced energy budget between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is shifting, according to 24 years of NASA ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - If it feels like summer is flying by, science says you’re not imagining it. Starting Wednesday, July 9, Earth is literally spinning faster than usual. Scientists recorded one of the ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

Earth spun just a bit faster than usual on July 9 and is expected to do so again on July 22 and Aug. 5, according to the website TimeAndDate. Over a millisecond was reportedly shaved off the clock on ...

Discover why we can't feel Earth's movement despite its rapid spinning and orbiting, explained through constant speed and ...