A recent groundbreaking study published in Geophysical Research Letters has revealed an astonishing new insight: Earth’s rotational axis has shifted 31.5 inches in less than two decades, largely due ...

This Sunday’s Super Bowl match-up of the San Francisco 49ers vs the Kansas City Chiefs will be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas with kickoff at 6:30 p.m. EST. As this year’s football season is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Earth in orbit around the Sun, with its rotational axis shown.

Cosmic filaments are among the largest structures in the Universe, and they rotate. In a new study that stacked thousands of filaments together, they were observed to be rotating along their ...

Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started going off-kilter, and nobody could quite say why. For decades, scientists had been watching the average position of our planet’s rotational axis ...

Runoff from irrigation has moved so much water from land to sea that Earth’s rotation might have measurably shifted. Computer simulations suggest that from 1993 through 2010, irrigation alone nudged ...

Of all the stars in the heavens, one appears to stand firmly in place. It’s not the brightest of stars, as many people believe. It’s actually the 48th brightest star, and you will have trouble finding ...