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The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While ...

Yet, NASA issued a startling warning about the potential consequences of filling the dam. The space agency cautioned that ...

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...

Earth Rotation Day was observed globally on Wednesday. The day celebrates the rotation of planet earth on its axis which is crucial for defining time and shape of life. Earth rotates on its axis, an ...

China is building the world’s largest hydropower dam on a river that flows into India and Bangladesh with potential impact on ...

Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

This appears to be the case, to a rather stunning extent, in the instance of the reporting this week around new findings that researchers say shows the rotation of Earth’s inner core is slowing ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has come up with another fantastic study, which says that ...

The Three Gorges Dam in China had a measurable impact on Earth's rotation, says scientists from the US space agency NASA. The dam spans the Yangtze Ri ...