Right now, wherever you are, you are spinning with our planet at hundreds of meters per second. But what if our planet started hitting the brakes until our world didn’t spin at all? Why would it be ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and stable to cold and chaotic, as continental ice sheets ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the ...