Earlier this month, the Earth spun just a bit faster than usual on July 9 and is expected to do so again on July 22 and Aug. 5, according to the website TimeAndDate. Over a millisecond was reportedly ...

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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 ...

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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.

Tomorrow might be a shorter day — but you’ll barely be able to tell. Scientists say that Earth will spin a tad faster than usual on Tuesday — shortening the usual 24-hour day by 1.25 to 1.51 ...

It’s easy to forget that our planet is constantly in motion, quietly spinning beneath our feet every second of every […] ...

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why. The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the ...