The heart of our planet has been spinning unusually slowly for the past 14 years, new research confirms. And if this mysterious trend continues, it could potentially lengthen Earth's days — though the ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at the heart of the planet. But new research has revealed something much more ...

It has been very widely reported that the Earth’s solid inner core may have stopped rotating, or started rotating in reverse. The same claim has also been shared on Facebook. This is potentially ...

Earth's composition is more complicated than we think and is changing continuously every day. The inner part of the planet can be divided into three different layers: crust, mantle, and core. Several ...

The Earth is rotating faster than its usual speed. Recently, scientists recorded Earth's full spin was 1.50 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. On July 26, Earth broke its June record when the planet ...

A Dec. 5 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a TikTok in which a man reads and shows screenshots from various NASA reports that reference a "flat, non-rotating earth" model. "NASA ...

Humans discovered the curvature and rotation of the Earth thousands of years ago, dating back to ancient Greece. Since then, scientists have only discovered more evidence to prove this is true – ...

When will the earth stop rotating? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Dave Consiglio, ...

It will be possible to forecast any natural or social cataclysm by attentively observing the speed of the Earth’s rotation and shift of its poles. The Earth rotates non-uniformly, its poles move, and ...

A new study confirms that Earth's inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious "backtracking" could also end up slightly altering the planet's overall rotation, ...