Shorter days happen from time to time. They tend to occur during the summer, when Earth spins faster than other times of the year, Agnew said. But there’s also added boosts on these days from the moon ...

Droughts have a similar effect: When soil dries out over long periods, it can become compacted or even crusted over, reducing its ability to absorb water. Severe to extreme preexisting drought ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

The antenna for the GOES-East weather satellite is nothing if not huge, as it communicates with a satellite close to 23,500 ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

A local historian’s journey to find out if Mount Rainier lies on the 47th parallel led to the discovery that one of ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...