Deep in China’s Hubei province, a structure designed to tame nature may also be nudging the planet’s rotation. The Three ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...

"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 ...

The planet’s fluctuating spin rate is carefully tracked by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (formerly the only slightly less bombastically named International Earth ...

That might not sound like much, but when we’re talking about the Earth’s rotation, every billionth of a second can have a massive effect on our planet and the parts of our world that rely on ...

A new study confirms that Earth's inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious "backtracking" could also end up slightly altering the planet's overall rotation ...

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.

The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. A study by Nature showed higher sea levels have slowed down Earth’s rotation because they change the concentration of the ...

Climate change is causing widespread global impacts, but now scientists are finding that it's altering the very planet itself. Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever ...

Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface. The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago ...

Earth's rotational speed is always fluctuating, varying by millisecond. However, our planet's rotation speed is decreasing overall. In 2023, the average length of day became longer for the first ...

“Differential rotation of the inner core was ... core generates electrical currents that power Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our planet from deadly solar radiation.