Scientists expect a specific day in July to be the shortest day of 2025 so far, running just over a millisecond faster than ...

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

Scientists say the Earth's axis tilt has changed due to melting ice caps over the last few decades.

Is the world on the cusp of a fleeting instant with the edge of time? July 9, July 22, and August 5, 2025, mark the dates when Earth’s rotation will accelerate just sufficiently to remove 1.3 to 1.51 ...

Earth's Axis Tilted Noticeably Over Two Decades: Here's Why Humans pump a huge amount of groundwater, and it's got us akilter.

(CNN) — Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study.

Earth completed its normal 24-hour rotation 1.59 milliseconds fast on June 29, breaking the record for the shortest day in modern history.

Scientists have discovered that the Earth's axis tilted by 31.5 inches between 1993 and 2010 - and one of the reasons is the pumping of groundwater for irrigation and human use ...

The axis of Planet Earth has tilted by 31.5 inches (nearly 80cm) and humans are to blame for this, according to a new study.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study ...

New research shows that persistent groundwater extraction over more than a decade has shifted the axis on which our planet rotates.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Humans’ unquenchable thirst for groundwater has sucked so much liquid from subsurface reserves that it’s affecting Earth’s tilt, according to a new study ...