Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

The International Rotation and Reference Systems Service found that July 9, July 22, and August 5 will be victims of the time ...

A scientist has warned that Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history in just a ...

Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has ...

The rotations of the Earth have increased in speed since 2020, and as it spins faster than ever, the shortest day recorded ...

The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation, explained. "Ocean and atmospheric ...

On June 29, the Earth’s full rotation took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours — the shortest day ever recorded. Scientists have warned that, if the rotation rate continues to speed up, ...

View of Earth from space. Image source: studio023 / Adobe. To fully understand how these human-built megastructures affect Earth’s rotation, though, we have to dig into the math a little bit.

Earth rotates on its axis, an imaginary line passing through the North and South Poles, at a speed of approximately 1,670 km per hour at the equator. It takes roughly 24 hours for Earth to complete ...

The Earth's rotation pushes more meltwater toward the equator and away from polar regions. "This means that a shift in mass is taking place, and this is affecting the Earth's rotation," says ...

The Earth orbits around the sun and it takes 365 days to complete one revolution or one full rotation around the sun. Additionally, the Earth is tilted at a 23.5-degree angle.