Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

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 ...

Earth is set to experience unusually short days in July and August 2025. The Moon's orbital position is subtly accelerating ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

Earth is expected to spin more faster in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On July 9, 2025, Earth is ...

Kariba Dam, built on Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the 1950s, impounds the largest artificial reservoir in the ...

A day on Earth is defined as the time the planet takes to complete one full rotation on its axis – roughly 86,400 seconds, or ...

Earth is set to break records with July 9 marking the shortest day ever recorded, shaving off 1.3–1.5 milliseconds due to ...

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 ...

TEMPERATURES in Scotland could “easily” surpass 30C amid a heatwave to hit the country this week – but people should not go ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...