A spinning gyroscope doesn't lock onto the Earth, it locks onto the universe, so how do ships coax it into pointing north? From gyroscopic precession to the Sagnac effect, here's the surprisingly ...

The findings suggest that modern climate change is unprecedented in its impact on Earth's rotation over the past 3.6 million years.

Earth is slowing down, but don't reset your watch yet. See how the Moon and climate change are slowly stretching the day to ...

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates ...

PARIS, France — Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying Sun, which has long been assumed to be our home planet's ...

As our resident myth-buster, Sarah Knapton has seen a thing or two. Now, she’s taking on some of the world’s best-known ...

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that ...

New research by Brown University geologists confirms that the Aleutian Islands, the archipelago stretching from Alaska to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, experienced a massive geological uplift between ...

Heat domes-which are behind some of summer's most extreme temperatures-occur when high pressure systems trap heat in the atmosphere.

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island ...

A massive asteroid named Apophis will safely pass close to Earth in 2029, creating the first opportunity in human history to ...

Learn more about "StormWall," what it is, and how it will keep Earth safe from potentially dangerous solar storms.