Some analyses even proposed that the core didn’t rotate at all. One promising model proposed in 2023 described an inner core that in the past had spun faster than Earth itself, but was now ...

Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface. The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago ...

"This means that a shift in mass is taking place, and this is affecting the Earth's rotation," explains Benedikt Soja, Professor of Space Geodesy at the Department of Civil, Environmental and ...

Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the Earth’s rotation and changes time itself. The hours and minutes that ...