What If** on MSN

What if Earth started spinning backwards?

Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in the ...
Astronomy

I saw a program that showed the Moon revolving around Earth, causing the oceans to swell on both sides of the planet. Shouldn’t the ocean opposite the Moon be shallower than ...

Tides occur because of the uneven pull of the Moon’s gravity on different parts of Earth. Portions closer to the Moon are pulled more strongly than those farther away. As the Moon pulls on the portion ...
The Space Race on MSN

The Earth is spinning faster than ever before… scientists don't know how to stop it - "The fastest it's rotated since we started measuring"

The Earth is rotating faster than at any point since modern measurements began, and scientists are still working to ...