New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

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

Earth is set to experience unusually short days in July and August 2025. The Moon's orbital position is subtly accelerating ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Earth is expected to spin faster than usual in the upcoming weeks, leading to slightly shorter days, scientists report, ...

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result ...

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

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

A leap second is a one-second modification that is sometimes used with atomic clocks, whenever there is a change in Earth's ...