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Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...
Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...
The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...
A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite data from 2003 to 2022, researchers from Duke University and the Georgia ...
This means we’re roughly even with the Sun’s equator and don’t see its poles from Earth The Solar Orbiter mission, however, was designed with a tilted orbit in mind, ...
Unlike Earth, which has fixed north and south poles, the sun's equivalents flip on an 11-year cycle. This is because its equator spins faster than its poles - every 26 days compared to every 33 ...