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 ...

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 ...

Earth is undergoing changes in its rotation due to factors such as climate change and geological shifts, which will make clocks skip a second in the near future. Close to 2029, there might be a ...

New research by two scientists at Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that Earth's inner core may have slowed or possibly reversed its rotation during the past decade. On Tuesday, Jan. 24, ...

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

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, ...