Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

a sister site of Live Science. Earth and most of the other planets — including Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune — also spin counterclockwise, but there are some exceptions.

The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. It is the only planet in the ...

"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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists are considering shortening the minute to 59 seconds to make up for the Earth ...

Earth’s core is pretty dynamic. Its spin speeds up and slows down based on how its two primary layers are behaving. As we improve the waveform techniques used to study the deepest layer ...