Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York. A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money. I was maybe 5 years old, and I was really excited to take it home.

The intriguing possibility arises because Earth’s magnetic field does not rotate with the Earth like a physical object. Instead, it is created at each instant and remains essentially fixed in space.

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money. I was maybe 5 years old, and I was really excited to take it home. As I ...

Physicists expect that this summer will be the shortest day in the history of observations.

Earth keeps spinning east, ... The sun is still shining on land west of that, so East Coasters can watch their own daylight recede by looking westward. Why Does the Earth Rotate Counterclockwise?

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

The 2003 disaster film “The Core” imagines that the rotation of Earth’s center has stalled, damaging the magnetic field that envelops the planet — and triggering a violent lightning storm ...

Earth's spin, of course, is not the only motion we have in space. Our orbital speed around the sun is about 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h), according to Cornell . We can calculate that with basic geometry.

Every bit of matter has its own gravity. ... Angular momentum puts planets in a spin. Earth and our neighbouring planets have been spinning for about 4.5 billion years now, ...

Global warming shifts spin axis of Earth It's hard to believe that humans could tip the Earth off its axis -- even a tiny bit. But we have, and Dr Karl explains how.

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money. I was maybe 5 years old, and I was really excited to take it home. As I ...