The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

A Dec. 5 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a TikTok in which a man reads and shows screenshots from various NASA reports that reference a "flat, non-rotating earth" model. "NASA ...

The intriguing question of whether a plane can outrun Earth’s rotation has been a topic of recent aviation discussions. This ...

We live on a spinning planet. Depending on latitude your individual speed varies from 0 mph at the poles to 1,040 mph (1,674 kph) at the equator. Here at 47 degrees north I'm madly spinning eastward ...

Much like the recent spherical Eris watch, here's another way to tell the time that is a little "out of this world". Japanese not-for-profit organization Think The Earth has released the wn-2 watch, ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

Alternative title: Neil deGrasse Tyson Still Complains About The Daily Show's Globe Is there a better person to have on a show for a science topic than Neil deGrasse Tyson? Yes? Yes, me. Maybe? Ok, ...