Astronaut Nichole Ayers recently witnessed a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station.

The Antarctic ice sheet, for example, is the largest single mass of ice on Earth, which contains 30 million cubic kilometers of ice: about 30 quadrillion tons of material.

Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology studied rare footage of a sprite filmed by high-speed cameras on two aircraft. The image shown is a colour composite of what they saw.

Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has ...

Since 1899, the Earth's axis of spin has shifted about 34 feet (10.5 meters). Now, research quantifies the reasons why and finds that a third is due to melting ice and rising sea levels ...

Melting ice is slowing Earth's spin and causing changes to its axis, new studies find. The shifts are causing feedback beneath the surface, impacting the planet's molten core.

Seeing sprites: Researchers catch glimpses of electromagnetic bursts high in Earth's atmosphere. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 08 ...

Jacco van Loon, Astronomer, Keele University. Could the Earth stop spinning, and if it did, what would happen? – Paul, aged 12, Aberdeen, Scotland. You may like A spinning universe could crack ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a stunning photo of glowing red lights in the Earth's atmosphere, known as "red sprites".

Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s. By Raymond Zhong Around the turn of the millennium, Earth’s spin started ...