That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is largely responsible for the distribution of every desert, forest, and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day.

"Enough ice has melted to move sea level enough that we can actually see the rate of the Earth's rotation has been affected," Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of ...

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the ...

A new study now reveals Earth's rotation is changing. Climate change is causing significant shifts in Earth's rotation and axis, according to new research from ETH Zurich. As polar ice melts and ...

Earth's rotation has been steadily decelerating due to the Moon's gravitational pull. This slowdown, barely perceptible over human lifetimes, has accumulated over billions of years, altering the ...

It came against a long-term background of a gradual slowing of Earth’s rotation, caused by the the ebb and flow of tides, the flow of magma, the melting of ice caps and other factors that ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

The video has been shot from the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle. Indian astronomer Dorje Angchuk has captured a breathtaking time-lapse video that showcases the Earth's rotation against ...