July 22 will be the second-shortest day of the year, as Earth completes a full rotation in less time than usual.

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

Another culprit could be powerful earthquakes knocking the Earth off its already tilted axis. In 2011, scientists found that a 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have been ferocious enough to shorten days on ...

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 ...

The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

July 22, the Earth will complete its daily rotation 1.34 milliseconds faster than the standard 24 hours, making it the second ...

Building dams has quietly tilted Earth’s axis by three feet, shifting poles and slowing rotation. A hidden planetary cost of ...

It takes Earth 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, to make one full rotation around its axis, but Earth's rotation isn't perfectly ... But during certain points in the Moon's elliptical and tilted orbit, ...

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Ample sunshine, ice cream, and afternoons at the beach might leave you wishing that summer would never end. Unfortunately, ...

An icy object in perfect sync with Neptune reveals new details about planetary migration and unseen bodies far beyond the Kuiper Belt.