Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has ...

The rotations of the Earth have increased in speed since 2020, and as it spins faster than ever, the shortest day recorded ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

The planet’s liquid core spins independently of its solid outer shell. If the core slows down, the solid shell speeds up to maintain momentum, Agnew said, and that is what’s currently happening.

Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

Early in the planet's history, Earth's rotation may have even been shorter than 10 hours, Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at Caltech, told Live Science in an email.This speedy ...

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

As rising global temperatures melt Earth’s polar ice sheets, the shifting water is creating such a huge redistribution of our planet’s mass that its rotation speed is dropping.This unusual ...

So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.

New research confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core has been slowing down as part of a decades-long pattern. How this slowdown might affect our planet remains an open question.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Vidale, professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California, about new research suggesting the rotation of Earth's inner core may be slowing down.

The rotation of the red planet has been speeding up and scientists are wondering why. Credit Credit... NASA/JPL-Caltech. By Kenneth Chang. Published Aug. 17, 2023 Updated Aug. 18, 2023.