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To understand why we don’t feel Earth's rotation, it’s essential to grasp the concept of inertia and the force of ...
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 set to experience one of its shortest days ever recorded as the planet's rotation continues its unexpected ...
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 ...
As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.
In fact, July 9 could end up being the shortest day ever recorded by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems ...