When looking at the Earth from afar it appears to be a perfect sphere, but that actually isn't the case. Because Earth isn't uniform on all sides due to land masses that shift and change over time, ...

That day, a Wednesday, was 1.59 milliseconds shorter than ever before. It happened because the Earth isn't perfectly spherical and can "wobble" on its axis. The Earth had its shortest ever day this ...

Wednesday, June 29, 2022, was slightly shorter than any other day by a mere 1.59 milliseconds, all due to a slight "wobble" of the Earth, according to scientists. An average day is 86,400 seconds, or ...

Millimeter deviations from the expected wobble of the Earth's axis are giving geophysicists clues to what happens 1,800 miles underground, at the boundary between the Earth's mantle and its iron core.

The last big ice age ended about 11,000 years ago, and not a moment too soon — it made a lot more of the world livable, at least for humans. But exactly what caused the big thaw isn't clear, and new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Humans are responsible for some of the wobble in Earth's spin. Since 1899, the Earth's axis of ...

When the Earth rotates, it doesn’t just spin. The Earth also wobbles on its axis like a top, and now a NASA study has clarified just what causes that wobble. The study identifies three separate causes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Earth spins around once every 24 hours on its axis, creating the continuous cycle of day and ...

The cyclic wobble of the Earth on its axis controls the production of a nutrient essential to the health of the ocean, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The discovery of factors that ...

Scientists have confirmed that weather makes the planet wobble on its axis after exploiting a rare opportunity to detect and measure the most subtle shifts in the Earth's spin. The wobbling at the ...