For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

A billion years ago, days lasted 19 hours: the balance between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Moon slowed down the Earth ...

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...

Near perihelion 3I/ATLAS exhibits non-gravitational acceleration, which requires massive evaporation for a natural comet (as ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

This week's science news was led by a spate of climate stories that were as worrying as they were fascinating. Topping the bill are microbes that were woken up after lying frozen in the Alaskan ...

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 ...

August 5th, 2025, is predicted to be one of the shortest days of the year, approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. Scientists attribute this phenomenon to changes in the Earth's core ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...