Since 2020, Earth has been rotating unusually fast on its axis, leading scientists to consider whether we should correct for ...

Two days this summer have been unusually short, with the shortest expected on Aug. 5, leading global timekeepers to consider ...

Tuesday, July 22, is expected to be the second of three days in 2025 where more than a millisecond could be shaved off the ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest distance from Earth’s equator, resulting in the slight increase in Earth’s ...

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

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

Most people think a day on Earth is just the time it takes for the planet to make one full rotation on its axis, but that’s ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

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