Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

The number of these circumpolar stars increases as you move toward the North Pole. There are no circumpolar stars at the ...

Find out what’s speeding up Earth’s rotation and why it may force timekeepers to delete a second ...

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase ...

Melting ice is not just raising sea levels, scientists say it is slowing Earth’s spin and making days longer, but how this ...

PCWorld reports that scientists discovered Earth’s inner core has slowed its rotation relative to the crust, even appearing to stop moving in a phenomenon that occurs every 35 years. This iron-nickel ...

On certain trans-Pacific flights, you can "time travel" by crossing the International Date Line. For example, if you want to go from San Francisco to Tokyo, and your flight departs at 5:00 p.m. on ...

We here at Jalopnik are insanely lucky to call what we do work. Obviously, being able to nerd out over cars is what makes it so cool, but arguably just as cool is getting to travel the world to go and ...

When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...