The Earth sits comfortably in its orbit tilted on its axis at 23 degrees. Knock the planet over - and it wouldn't be the ...

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

Early in the history of our solar system, something mysteriously knocked Earth slightly off its axis. So today we tilt ... means that different parts of the globe receive different amounts of ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the point of Earth's axis of rotation.

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

It takes 24 hours for the Earth to rotate once on its axis. We split the globe into time zones using ... The Prime Meridian splits the world into eastern and western hemispheres.