The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reports that Earth is currently spinning faster, ...

An animation showcases how the seasons change with Earth's orbit around the sun. Earth's axis tilt causes very specific weather patterns and daylight during the course of a year.

Scientists say Earth's rotation is being affected by climate change, especially through melting ice and shifting groundwater. Combined with natural forces like lunar gravity, the planet’s days are ...

The Earth orbits the Sun, but with a tilt. That tilt is important to those of us on the planet because it creates our seasons. How does that work? What does our planet’s rotation mean for us on ...

Seasons are defined in two ways: astronomical seasons, which are based on Earth’s position as it rotates around the sun, and meteorological seasons, which are based on annual temperature cycles.

Summer solstice 2025 brings changing seasons to Earth on June 20; ... July 19, 2020, was a record-breaking short day that year with Earth completing a rotation in 1.47 milliseconds under 24 hours.

This may sound trivial, but over the last 20 years alone, the pumping of groundwater – mostly for drinking – has caused Earth’s rotation to tilt eastwards by nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 ...

In physics, we speak of the law of conservation of angular momentum, and this same law also governs the Earth's rotation. If the Earth turns more slowly, the days get longer.

ON May 1, a public lecture was delivered at Oxford by Dr. J. K. Fotheringham, reader in ancient astronomy and chronology in the University, on the rotation of the earth. Dr. Fotheringham spoke of ...