A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

The Federal Reserve has gotten lots of media attention recently, notwithstanding everything else that’s happening in the ...

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

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

According to the website, Earth spins faster when the Moon’s orbit takes it significantly north or south relative to the ...

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

Jupiter's rapid rotation makes it the fastest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is home to a 350-year-old storm, the Great Red Spot. It is a hurricane-like storm that has raged for centuries.

"Even if the Earth's rotation is changing only slowly, this effect has to be taken into account when navigating in space—for example, when sending a space probe to land on another planet," Soja ...

This shift could potentially impact the planets rotation, leading to longer days. Scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) have confirmed that the Earth's inner core is rotating ...

The Earth’s rotation feels like a constant, but that speed actually goes through lots of small fluctuations that are unnoticed by most of the planet’s 8 billion human inhabitants. Earthquakes ...

Basically, as polar ice melts into the ocean, there's less mass overall at the poles and the middle of the planet becomes a little heavier, hence slowing down Earth's rotation.

In short: The melting of Earth's ice caps is slowing the rate at which the planet spins. New research suggests this will have implications for how we adjust the world's "UTC" time standard, to ...