An illustration of the trajectory of potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon as it passed by Earth in 2017. New research suggests the asteroid's spin is accelerating. A potentially ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -A bit of news you didn’t expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth’s inner core has stopped spinning. Scientists ...

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth. Astronomers created a 3D image of the newly discovered asteroid after observing it with a telescope in Chile. (9NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.

video: In this animation, Earth and the smaller planet that hit Earth, named Theia, are represented by many particles with a fixed mass, shown as small balls. The color of the ball indicates the ...

BEIJING - A new study finds that Earth’s inner core has temporarily stopped spinning — and now, may actually be reversing directions. Research scientists in China, Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, told FOX ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer. By Jacey Fortin This article was updated ...

Earth's inner core may have paused and reversed its spin, a new study suggests. Earthquakes and nuclear blasts can send seismic waves through the mysterious solid-iron core. Those waves hint that the ...

The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in recent memory as a result, slicing ...