Planetary scientist Meenakshi Wadhwa is due to return to her postdoctoral roots at UCSD in October after six years as director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State ...

Since 2020, Earth has been rotating unusually fast on its axis, leading scientists to consider whether we should correct for ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

The deep ocean is a world of crushing pressure, freezing temperatures, and eternal darkness. For most of history, scientists ...

Blink and you missed it, quite literally. Today, Earth spun faster than usual, racing through one of its shortest days since ...

Earth is spinning mysteriously fast on Tuesday, August 5, making it the third shortest day of this summer. Normally, the ...

Our planet and atmosphere rotate in sync ... a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. (Earth's inner core is doing something weird.) On average Earth's days have been growing longer for ...

Ample sunshine, ice cream, and afternoons at the beach might leave you wishing that summer would never end. Unfortunately, this year the season is speeding by a smidge faster than normal. Through July ...

August 5th, 2025, is predicted to be one of the shortest days of the year, approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours. While imperceptible to humans, these millisecond variations can impact ...

Incredibly, today will be approximately 1.34 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, according to the International Earth ...