In NBC’s science fiction drama La Brea (now streaming on Peacock!), a sinkhole opens up under the La Brea Tar Pits, swallowing a few hundred people along with buildings, vehicles, and whatever else ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Earth's core may have slowed its rotation before completely switching directions around more than a decade ago, scientists suggested in a new study. In a report published in ...

Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that ...

Earth’s rotation patterns may have shifted more than a decade ago without any of us noticing. According to a newly published study, researchers have spent the last 60 years examining seismic waves ...

A 2003 film titled The Core depicted a scenario in which disasters happened across the Earth because the planet’s core stopped spinning. Could this now be happening in real life? Some people are ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Earth’s core has long been a place of mystery to scientists. The core of our planet sits just over 1,800 miles below the surface and exists as a ball of seething hot metal, specifically iron and ...

Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars. Scientists call this difference crucial to ...

As the polar ice caps melt, the Earth actually slows down, California scientists say. Less ice at the Earth's poles and more water weight spread around to other places are leading to the planet ...

We live on a spinning planet. Depending on latitude your individual speed varies from 0 mph at the poles to 1,040 mph (1,674 kph) at the equator. Here at 47 degrees north I'm madly spinning eastward ...

Research published in the journal Nature Geoscience said Earth's core nearly stopped rotating around 2009, before turning in the opposite direction Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports ...