Right now, we're zooming through space at incredible speeds, so why aren't we dizzy or flying off into space?  An expert ...

The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the next few weeks. The rotation of the Earth changes due to several ...

If you're seated while reading these words — as I am writing them — you're most likely convinced that you and the room around ...

Second, and much closer to home, is the mass of the Earth itself. If you have ever seen figure skaters, you know that when ...

If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

Earth spun just a bit faster than usual on July 9 and is expected to do so again on July 22 and Aug. 5, according to the website TimeAndDate. Over a millisecond was reportedly shaved off the clock on ...

If you've felt like summer days are flying by, you're not wrong—at least not scientifically. Experts have observed that Earth's rotation is speeding up, making some days slightly shorter than the ...

Earth is set to mark Wednesday, July 9, as the shortest day ever recorded, with similar short days anticipated on July 22 and August 5, 2025. Scientists attribute this phenomenon to the Moon’s current ...

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 ...

Scientists have raised concerns that the Earth's inner core may completely halt its rotation by 2040, according to a recent paper published in Nature. The study suggests changes are occurring deep ...

Earth, like most planets out in the cosmos, famously spins on an axis, but what if it didn’t? What if one day, instead of twirling at 1,040 Miles per hour it just suddenly stopped, coming to a halt ...

(Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the ...