For thousands of years, scientists have known that the Earth is tilted on its axis. In addition to this steady tilt of 23.5 ...

Instead Earth's so-called "True North Pole" is whichever place that is northernmost on the planet, a fact determined by where the globe's axis of rotation meets its surface. (The True North Pole ...

Regarding the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects for the purposes of amateur astronomy, some coordinates change and some do not (except over very long periods of time). Objects ...

The Earth has lost enough groundwater to thirsty humans to measurably tilt the planet’s axis of rotation. The net water lost from underground reservoirs between 1993 and 2010 is estimated to be ...

A recent study has shown that excessive groundwater extraction is causing significant changes in the Earth's rotation. This research, led by scientists from Seoul National University, highlights ...