Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Tides can distort a planet's mass, which in turn affects its rotation. We're most familiar with gravitational tides, which on Earth we feel from the gravity of the Moon and the Sun.These ...

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New studies, which utilized AI to monitor the effects of climate change on Earth's spin, have shown that our days are getting increasingly longer and that our planet will get more wobbly in the ...

So much ice is melting at the Earth's poles that it's affecting the rotation of the planet, scientists say. Its spin is slowing down slightly, causing days to get longer.