We don't want to deal with all that, so let’s just pretend that we wished upon a star and tomorrow morning the Earth will be spinning the other way ... The rotation of our planet affects ...

Twenty minutes and 200 yards later, Simon read out a question from a listener whose five year-old daughter had asked "What would be different if the Earth spun the other way?" Easy, I thought ...

As Earth continues its easterly rotation, the sun shines on more and more of North America. In other words, we humans on the ground are moving into sunlight that’s already shining on land east ...

Some believe it spins faster than the outer layers, at a rate of so-called super-rotation ... who examined the way in which seismic waves from earthquakes travel through the Earth’s core ...

But do we know which way Earth is spinning? And is it the same direction as the sun and the other planets circling ... "To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it to a ...

Every day, the Earth spins ... got this way, but they have some ideas. For Venus, maybe a collision caused its rotation to flip. Or maybe it began rotating just like the other planets.

Even Earth's rotation decelerates. Gravity from the moon pulls on Earth in a way that ever so slightly slows it down. A 2016 analysis in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A of ancient ...