At its equator, Earth is spinning at about 1,040 mph. But what if it just suddenly stopped? You and everything else could go flying at hundreds of miles per hour, unless you're at the poles. Earth's ...

In Season 6, Episode 8 of the animated series "Futurama," a race of cat-like aliens attempts to harness the Earth's rotational energy to restore their own planet's spin. After succeeding in halting ...

Deep under the Earth's surface, there's a scorching hot ball of metal. Scientists just discovered that something very wrong ...

Last week, we talked about sunrise and sunset, and asked the question: What would happen if Earth suddenly stopped spinning? Spoiler alert: We wouldn’t live long enough to see the end result. * Let’s ...

If it seems like everything is going poorly right now, it might help to know that things could actually be way worse. Or maybe it doesn’t help at all. Either way, exploring this unfortunate ...

Like you, I'm given to wondering about "what ifs" to better understand the assumptions we make about the world. One of my favorites is what if the Earth stopped rotating? Let's just say things would ...

The inner Earth is a mysterious place, and now scientists may have uncovered a strange new secret. According to a new study, the Earth’s inner core may have recently stopped rotating, relative to the ...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the world stopped turning? KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross has, and he wasn’t afraid to ask Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson when he interviewed the “Cosmos” host ...

Earth is steadily spinning like a top, even if we can't see, touch, hear or feel it. So, what would happen if Earth were to abruptly stop rotating? If the spinning were to stop, the angular momentum ...