Did you feel it? The planet spun a bit faster last week, by enough to give us our shortest day of the year, so far.

This allowed the researchers to relate the movement of mass due to groundwater and melting ice to the variations in the length of our days, from the year 1900 through until 2018.

The world’s largest hydroelectric plant is doing more than generating power – it’s ever so slightly changing how the planet ...

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In a revelation that has left the global scientific community both intrigued and perplexed, recent data indicates that ...

From 1973 to 2020, the shortest day ever recorded was only 1.05 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, Space.com reads. Since 2020, however, the Earth has repeatedly broken its own speed record since ...

Tuesday, July 22 will be the second-shortest day of the year, as Earth completes a full rotation in less time than usual. The planet on Tuesday will experience a shorter rotation than the typical 24 ...

An iceberg twice the size of Greater London has been spinning on the spot near Antarctica for at least eight months.

Scientists say the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would have such profound effects it would shift the planet's rotation, sending a bulge of water into the Northern Hemisphere.