A 9.1 magnitude earthquake did more than trigger a deadly tsunami. NASA explains how it affected Earth’s axis and day length.

Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...

Precession (21,000-year cycle): Earth wobbles on its axis, changing the timing of the seasons. These cycles interact in complex ways, sometimes reinforcing each other and at other times working ...

There have been many theories as to why this axis drift ... a static point on Earth to the oceans. This changes the way the planet moves in space and, as a result, causes a wobble that is ...

Most of the earth’s wobbling is a grand motion that makes its axis describe a 23° cone once every 26,000 years. This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Early in the history of our solar system, something mysteriously knocked Earth slightly off its axis. So today we tilt at 23.5 degrees. But what would ...

The Earth wobbles on its axis. This can change the timing of seasons and affect how big the range in temperature between high and low is. All these physical causes of global temperature change ...

For centuries, Polaris, the North Star, was the most important star in the sky, especially for seafarers in the Northern ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

According to a report in Science, researchers have determined that water on land, which includes soil moisture levels, underground aquifers, lakes, rivers and other water-holding surfaces, has been ...