Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in England recorded the shortest day ever on June 29 and another shortened day on July 26, according to Popular Mechanics, a science and technology ...

Geophysicist John Vidale noticed something striking while tracking the way seismic waves move from Earth's crust through its core. The very center of the planet, a solid ball of iron and nickel ...

The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth ...

The more water from the polar regions flows into the world’s oceans— particularly into equatorial areas—the more significant the drag factor on the speed at which Earth rotates, says the paper.

Speaking of spinning – if we know Earth rotates pretty quickly, why aren’t we all down here stumbling around like a kid who ...

Yes, Earth is suddenly spinning faster. Earth rotated once around ... which bright stars and planets can be seen as well as a view of the solar corona, the white-hot atmosphere of the Sun.

In effect the Earth broke the record 28 times in 2020, and it's still spinning faster. While Earth is, on average, pretty reliable and takes 86,400 seconds to rotate around its axis, this is not ...

And finally, currents of magma inside Earth's spinning, liquid core change irregularly, causing it to rotate faster or slower and altering the entire planet's rotation in the process. But now ...

2. Moment Shift The Three Gorges Dam alters Earth’s “moment of inertia”—its resistance to spinning—by concentrating massive weight far from the center of rotation. Like adding weight to ...