This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Shorter days happen from time to time. They tend to occur during the summer, when Earth spins faster than other times of the year, Agnew said. But there’s also added boosts on these days from the moon ...

Droughts have a similar effect: When soil dries out over long periods, it can become compacted or even crusted over, reducing its ability to absorb water. Severe to extreme preexisting drought ...

ESA has announced an official agreement to maintain this access to Guiana Space Centre (CSG) for the next decade, to 2035.

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

Rising temperatures in the North Atlantic are slowing vital currents, but a new process in the Arctic could save the day, scientists say.