The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

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 ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting today. This will technically result in ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Planetary Tailspin The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and ...

So far, the shortest day ever recorded was July 5, 2024, when Earth rotated 1.66 milliseconds faster than usual. This year, ...

A leap second is a one-second modification that is sometimes used with atomic clocks, whenever there is a change in Earth's ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...