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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...