What if filling a single dam could make our days just a tiny bit longer? As incredible as it sounds, that's what NASA ...

One giant dam has already nudged the way our planet turns. When the enormous Three Gorges Dam reservoir in China filled with ...

For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained fixed at 19 hours, stalling the normal progression toward longer days.

Dead satellites and drift-prone GPS coordinates aren't your phone's fault — they're side effects of something unprecedented happening to our planet. Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at the ...

After several years of record-breaking short days, Earth’s spell of unusually rapid rotation may have peaked, with the shortest day of 2026 set to occur on July 26.

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield nothing more than frustration and perhaps a headache. In [Bertrand Selva]’s ...

Hundreds of Venus-like planets could soon help determine why some worlds become sweltering greenhouse hellscapes while others ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space in this ...