Just as passengers don’t feel the plane’s speed while smoothly cruising, we don’t feel Earth’s movement because we’re ...

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 ...

Recently, Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds. While this change is minor, scientists are ...

Aristotle had one of the first important scientific theories and was the one who found out the world is round.

Our readers continue to grapple with this one, with the latest batch of answers giving a more hopeful response to any readers ...

Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion years ago, and it will continue to do so ...

A camera on a satellite positioned a million miles away from Earth captured images around every two hours for an entire year. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had the courtesy to ...

As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in ...

How many times does the Earth rotate in one year? The answer seems intuitive... There are 365 days in a year, plus one day added every four years during a leap year. So that comes to 365.25 rotations!