How might we cope with shorter days and less sleep? How would it affect our climate and geography? Can we survive any faster? We don’t feel the Earth spinning because, along with everything else on ...

Earth’s rotation is no longer matching the tidy 24-hour day that our technology assumes. Since 2020, each day has been shorter by roughly 1.5 milliseconds, a tiny sliver of time that is now large ...

On June 29, Earth experienced its shortest-ever day—1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. The apparent speed-up of Earth's rotation could be attributed to the "Chandler Wobble." This minuscule change ...

The world's timekeepers have voted to stop adding leap seconds to UTC, the clock behind every phone, server and satellite.

Leap Seconds Abolished as Earth Spins Faster International Bureau ends 54-year system to prevent computer chaos from ...

Dead satellites and drift-prone GPS coordinates aren't your phone's fault — they're side effects of something unprecedented happening to our planet. Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at the ...

Confirming assertions first made in 1996, a team of geophysicists is presenting data in the journal Science on Friday showing that Earth’s inner core, a ball of solid iron larger than the moon, spins ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space in this ...