The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Several things affect Earth’s spinning speed. The Moon is one of them. When it’s far from Earth’s equator, our planet spins a ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

July 9 was predicted to have a shorter "length of day" than usual due to an increase in Earth's rotation speed. See which ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth completed its rotation approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds faster than ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Did you feel that? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

Several factors including climate change are affecting Earth's rotation.

Earth is expected to experience slightly shorter days in the coming weeks as the planet spins faster due to the changing position of the moon, according to a report by Live Science.

A solar day should last exactly 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours. The scientific community is concerned about how the Earth's rotation is accelerating. In this regard, astrophysicist Gr ...