As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

The study of polar motion and Earth's rotation dynamics encompasses the investigation of subtle shifts in the orientation of the planet's rotation axis relative to its crust. These motions are ...

A typical desk globe is designed to be a geometric sphere and to rotate smoothly when you spin it. Our actual planet is far less perfect — in both shape and in rotation. Earth is not a perfect sphere.

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

Scientists in Germany have used a highly sensitive underground ring laser to track Earth's axial wobble without relying on telescopes, satellites, or external reference signals. The researchers from ...

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The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...

Astronomers have long known pre cisely how fast the earth moves as it cir cles around its own star, the sun (66,500 m.p.h.), and how fast the solar system revolves around the core of its own galaxy, ...

Spring, summer, fall, and winter — the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It’s easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

Every year, Earth follows a familiar pattern of seasonal changes: As summer rolls around in the Northern Hemisphere, winter creeps in in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. But do other planets ...