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The Earth rotates at about 1,670 kilometers per hour at the equator, yet we experience no sense of motion. But how is this ...
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, traveled today to Central Texas to visit sites along the Guadalupe River ...
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
The Earth is predicted to make its fastest rotations on July 9, July 10, July 22 and August 5, according to a Time and Date ...
Earth is expected to experience slightly shorter days in the coming weeks as the planet spins faster due to the changing position of the moon, according to a report by Live Science.
July 9 was predicted to have a shorter "length of day" than usual due to an increase in Earth's rotation speed. See which ...
Each tick of the clock marks a second in a day, normally 86,400 of them. But on July 9, 2025, Earth completed its rotation 1.3 milliseconds faster than usual, making it at least the shortest day this ...
On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
The 24-hour day isn’t a given anymore. In recent years, scientists have discovered Earth is rotating slightly faster, which ...
On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.