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Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure ...
Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...
There are a total of three days this summer — July 9, July 22 and Aug. 5 — when the moon will be around its furthest distance ...
Scientists say that the decrease in the speed of Earth’s rotation on August 5 was related to atmospheric conditions in the ...
Earth is spinning mysteriously fast on Tuesday, August 5, making it the third shortest day of this summer. Normally, the ...
A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.
Blink and you missed it, quite literally. Today, Earth spun faster than usual, racing through one of its shortest days since ...
Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's ...
To find out how fast the Earth is spinning at all, you need to find a reference frame in which, ideally, nothing is moving.
The world’s largest hydroelectric plant is doing more than generating power – it’s ever so slightly changing how the planet ...
What is the speed of Earth's rotation? Here's why we don't feel a thing, even though Earth spins at 1,000 mph.