Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records ...

No, you aren't imagining it. NASA has confirmed that the days are indeed getting shorter, as our planet spins faster than ever before.

Earth is expected to spin faster than usual in the upcoming weeks, leading to slightly shorter days, scientists report, ...

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 ...

While you may feel robbed of your summer, next year you will enjoy 93 days, 15 hours, and 40 mins of Croc season, or an extra ...

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

The Earth completes a full rotation in less than 24 hours: 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds, to be more precise. In other words, what we think of as a day is not a 360 degree rotation of our ...

FARGO — Our planet Earth is tilted. That is to say, its axis of daily rotation is tilted about 23 and a half degrees from its axis of revolution around the sun. It is this tilt that gives us ...

The ongoing melting of glaciers, due to climate change, has created a measureable speeding up of the Earth’s rotation, as the “arms” of ice are drawn inward to the sea, and thus toward the axis.

How the orbit of the Moon around the and the Earth around the sun, impact day length, months and seasons. Learn what a year is with this guide for KS3 physics students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

While Mars's orbital eccentricity, at 0.09, is much larger than Earth's at present (at 0.017), Earth's eccentricity can achieve a maximum of 0.07, rivaling Mars and potentially causing our seasons ...