Earth’s rotation feels steady, but beneath that illusion of constancy lies a subtle truth: the planet’s spin is shifting. The axis around which Earth rotates isn’t fixed. It wanders, sways, and drifts ...

After spending seven months in orbit, the first-ever 3D-printed metal part was created aboard the International Space Station (ISS), floating some 400 kilometers above Earth. So how did they pull off ...

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ELVIS, a holographic microscope bound for the International Space Station, will study how resilient Earth microbes adapt to space ... By creating stunning 3D holograms of cells, it allows scientists ...

Is the treadmill harder or easier than running outdoors? Survey runners, and you’ll get plenty of different opinions on which feels harder or easier, but the basic physics of running are the ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles could shift up to 89 feet (27 meters) by 2100 as the planet's axis of rotation ...

The first metal 3D-printed part made in space has returned to Earth and is now at ESA’s ESTEC facility in the Netherlands. Credit: ESA ESA has returned the first metal 3D-printed part made in space, a ...

Every second, the Earth spins silently through space, its motion and magnetic field largely invisible to us. But now, scientists say this ceaseless rotation might be more than just a cosmic ...