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The axis of Planet Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches (nearly 80cm) and humans are to blame for this, according to a new study.
Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...
But the earth is not a perfect sphere; it is a geoid slightly flattened at the poles by the centrifugal force of its rotation. So it spins like a fat flywheel on the short axis between the poles.
The summer solstice marks the beginning of astronomical summer each year, typically falling between June 20 and June 22. In ...
Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.
Earth’s magnetic north pole is different from the geographic North Pole. The latter (the so-called “True North”) directly points toward the geographic North Pole, a fixed point on the Earth ...
The axis of Planet Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches (nearly 80cm) and humans are to blame for this, according to a new study. Scientists studying the impact of climate change on our planet made the ...