A simple animation created by planetary scientist James O'Donoghue puts the whole thing in perspective. "People often talk about how we are standing on a ball (Earth) which rotates at great speed ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface ... which you can see in the animation below. The work, led by ...

A new animation depicts ... The fates of Earth's oceans and the moon's location in space are connected because the moon's gravity pulls on ocean water, creating a "tidal bulge" that stretches ...