Google Earth Screenshots Reveal Our Planet’s Beautiful, Pattern-Like Designs. An artist virtually flies the globe via Google Earth, capturing its most eye-popping aerial views along the way.

John Nelson is a designer, well known for tracing complex weather patterns or cultural information on maps, so considering what he usually does, this was easy. NASA's Visible Earth team publishes ...

July 22, 2025, marks one of the shortest days on Earth as the planet spins faster. Know why Earth's rotation is changing and ...

While searching Google Earth, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia, discovered an amazing sight—the patterns of the Earth seemed to form a delicate ...

Our planet has been spinning a little faster than usual and this trend is expected to continue into early August. On July 9, it’s estimated that the day was about 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds shorter, ...

A multi-institutional team of geoscientists has found evidence that the Earth's rotation slows in a staircase pattern, with two stable periods that stand out. In their study, published in the ...

The biggest jigsaw puzzle in the solar system has a split personality: The number and sizes of Earth's tectonic plates can flip, according to a new study. Today, the pieces of Earth's broken shell ...