The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

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

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 ...

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

The International Rotation and Reference Systems Service found that July 9, July 22, and Aug. 5 will be victims of the time-slicing, putting them among the shortest since 2020. Scientists said these ...

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

Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

A solar day should last exactly 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours. The scientific community is concerned about how the Earth's rotation is accelerating. In this regard, astrophysicist Gr ...

Time is not on your side this summer. The Earth is set to have three remarkably shorter than average days in the coming weeks as the Earth’s rotation unexpectedly accelerates, according to ...