Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at record speeds, causing GPS timing errors and navigation delays on your ...

Melting ice sheets and rising seas are redistributing enough mass across the planet to measurably slow Earth’s rotation, ...

The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in recent memory as a result, slicing ...

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...

Scientists announced Monday that Earth is rotating slightly faster than normal, resulting in what is expected to become the second-shortest day ever recorded since precise atomic timekeeping began.

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 ...

The water contained in the Earth's dams has impacted where its poles are and how fast it spins, but this one dam is making a ...