Earth's rotation is currently speeding up, leading to slightly shorter days, a trend that began around 2020. Scientists ...

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

Earth's rotation has sped up, causing shorter days. Astrophysicist Graham Jones predicts the next shortest day is around the ...

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The rotation of the Earth's inner core may be reversing, scientists have found in a study that sheds new light on geological processes occurring deep within our planet.

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 ...

Several key factors affect the planet’s spin — sometimes working in opposition. The friction of ocean tides, due in part to the moon’s gravitational pull, slows the Earth’s rotation.