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

Various incredible natural phenomena exist across Earth's surface. Rare and unexpected natural wonders occasionally become ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...