On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth completed its rotation approximately 1.3 to 1.6 milliseconds faster than ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

But with atomic clocks tracking the Earth’s rotational speed so closely that once every year and a half or so, the ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result ...

July 9 was predicted to have a shorter "length of day" than usual due to an increase in Earth's rotation speed. See which ...

Everyone has the same 24 hours to get things done in a day. However, they're going to have a little less time on Wednesday, July 9, which will go down in history as one of the shortest days in ...

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

Scientists expect a specific day in July to be the shortest day of 2025 so far, running just over a millisecond faster than ...

On July 9, 22, and August 5, 2025, the Moon will be farthest from Earth’s equator, shifting its gravitational effect on Earth’s axis and altering rotation speed ...

Light sometimes appears to be "dragged" by the motion of the medium through which it is traveling. This phenomenon, referred ...

A leap second is a one-second modification that is sometimes used with atomic clocks, whenever there is a change in Earth's ...