Look at a satellite map of tropical cyclones and you'll notice something odd. The big spiraling storms cluster on either side ...

University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature.

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won't even notice. We're talking even less time than the ...

You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in ...

Megastructures have big impacts on the world — namely the people around and the environment they affect. However, this one structure may be doing even more.

Meltwater from the polar ice caps, combined with the shifting spin of Earth's core, is messing with the Earth's rotation to the point that we might need to adjust for a "negative leap second." The ...

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Climate change is causing the ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica to melt. Water from the polar regions is flowing into the world’s oceans –and especially into the equatorial region. “This means ...

One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time. Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth's rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday ...

Earth’s rotation subtly changes the length of the day. Now our clocks won’t change with it — at least not for a very long ...