Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth is spinning faster this summer, leading astronomers to notice that some days have clocked in at slightly less than the ...

Something unusual is happening to our planet, and scientists are racing to understand why. For billions of years, Earth’s rotation has been gradually slowing down, mainly due to the Moon’s ...

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.

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

It wouldn’t be summer without the stretched out days. The dawns break early and the dusks come late, affording more time for lazy beach trips and long barbecues under the slow curve of the sun. But ...

Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers ...

In Earth's early days, it was slammed by protoplanet Theia. This left our world spinning on a tilted axis. But what if the Theia crash had flipped Earth 90 degrees? And why could living in Alaska help ...

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 ...