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

Find out what’s speeding up Earth’s rotation and why it may force timekeepers to delete a second ...

Looking out to the future, we see a gradual but also very important shift occurring right under our feet; the Earth's own ...

At the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service in Paris, a quiet calculation takes place several times a ...

If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

California is set to experience one of its shortest days on record — and, no, it’s not because summer is winding down in the Northern Hemisphere. The Earth’s full rotation on its axis is gaining speed ...

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 ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

But new research suggests a new player is making an impact: us. By studying foraminifera, tiny single-celled marine organisms that leave behind fossil shells, a team of researchers from the University ...

James O'Donoghue receives funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it ...