Hang on because we’re about to screech to a halt. That’s right. The Earth is going to stop spinning for five seconds. How ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Pettit added: “Visible are circular star trails above the earth limb created not from Earth rotation, but from our orbital ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny adjustments worth the bother?

As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction that the earth actually spins. There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis. For the ...

As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction that the earth actually spins. There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis.

A: Yes. the Sun too rotates about its axis. But unlike the earth, which has a rotation period of one day, the sun has a ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

That translates to about 42,960 revolutions per minute. That means this neutron star spins 61,902,017 times faster than Earth ...