With human-caused climate change, we puny creatures are having some powerful effects on our entire planet, including one you might not imagine was possible — making it spin more slowly. The melting of ...

Although a desktop globe always spins smoothly around the axis running through its north and south poles, a real planet wobbles You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

China’s massive Three Gorges Dam has reportedly caused a subtle but measurable shift in the Earth’s axis and a slight increase in the length of a day, an effect confirmed by scientists at NASA’s ...

Time has always slipped through our fingers, but now it’s literally speeding up. Scientists say the Earth is spinning faster than ever, and that’s shaving precious milliseconds off our days — a shift ...

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Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Lisa Maynard-Atem, 47, can barely remember what she had for breakfast three days ago, let alone what happened last year. Halfway into 2025, we’ve had World War Three scares, deadly weather events, a ...

Since the Earth is rotating from west to east at a thousand miles an hour how is it that planes flying in the same direction can still reach their destination? Sara Mazrouei, a planetary and Earth ...

A scientist has warned that Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history in just a few weeks. Graham Jones, an astrophysicist at the University of London, says ...