Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Star trails over field of wild red poppies on the slopes of Mount Damavand volcano. By utilizing a long exposure, the circular ...

Earth is spinning faster than ever, and the result is a shortening of the length of our days. Since 2020, each year has brought records for the shortest day ever, with Earth’s spin accelerating by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth could be about to record its fastest-ever rotation.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. After a few years of speeding up, our planet now appears to ...

If you've felt like summer days are flying by, you're not wrong—at least not scientifically. Experts have observed that Earth's rotation is speeding up, making some days slightly shorter than the ...

On those three days, just over a millisecond is expected to be shaved off the standard 24-hour day. Of course, you're unlikely to notice such a miniscule difference in your day. But scientists who ...

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to fully explain the various causes of long-term polar motion in the most comprehensive modeling to date, using AI methods. Their model and ...

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More daylight helped oxygen escape from microbial mats. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here's a new spin on how Earth became an ...

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 result of ...

If you have ever heard that Earth will soon start having 25-hour days, it might be right. The idea itself is not wrong. Scientists do expect Earth’s rotation to keep slowing. What often gets lost is ...