Following is a transcript of the video. Early in the history of our solar system, something mysteriously knocked Earth slightly off its axis. So today we tilt at 23.5 degrees. But what would ...

Humans have been identified as the culprits behind a startling shift in Earth's axis by almost 31.5 inches ... Earth's mass and a consequent drift of its rotational pole at approximately 4.36cm ...

In about 200 million years, the moon will be farther from Earth, which will turn more slowly ... planet’s rate of rotation and its angle. Exactly where the axis of rotation meets Earth ...

Changes in overall rain patterns would turn Africa's Sahara Desert from ... That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is largely responsible for the ...

So how come days don’t last half a year where you live? That’s because the Earth is a sphere that constantly rotates on its axis:just like a basketball player spinning a ball on their finger ...

Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted, as you can see from this illustration. This means that day and night are not equal lengths in most places on the planet. As Earth moves through its orbit ...

It takes about as long for the moon to turn on its axis as it does to orbit Earth, so it keeps the same face towards us – the one known in folk tales as the Man In The Moon, a vaguely face ...