Earth's axial precession, a slow wobble of its rotational axis, is analogous to the gyroscopic motion of a spinning top. The primary cause of Earth's precession is the gravitational influence of the ...

Using a complex model to perform a theoretical calculation based on a U.S. Geological Survey, Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has determined that by changing the distribution ...

Each year, as the globe continues to warm, hundreds of billions of tons of ice melt into the Earth's oceans. Since 1980, the location of both poles has moved roughly 13 feet. The movement of the Earth ...

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China’s massive Three Gorges Dam has reportedly caused a subtle but measurable shift in the Earth’s axis and a slight increase in the length of a day, an effect confirmed by scientists at NASA’s ...

Humans may have significantly shifted the Earth’s rotation by 80 centimetres to the east due to large quantities of water being pumped out of the ground. Findings published in Geophysical Research ...

Earth's axial precession is a gyroscopic wobble, analogous to a spinning top, causing its axis of rotation to trace a cone over time. The primary cause of Earth's precession is the gravitational ...