Discover how the Earth started spinning, the impact of the Theia collision, and how the Moon's gravity is gradually slowing ...

While standing in my back yard, how fast am I moving through space considering Earth’s rotation, Earth’s orbit around the Sun, the Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy, et cetera? Fair warning: this is going ...

Earth’s Rotation Day 2026, observed on January 8, highlights how Earth’s constant rotation shapes day and night, climate, ...

Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion years ago, and it will continue to do so ...

An instantaneous cessation of Earth's rotation would result in catastrophic, planet-wide devastation due to the inertia of objects on the surface moving at high speeds (approximately 1000 mph at the ...