Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at record speeds, causing GPS timing errors and navigation delays on your ...

Find out what’s speeding up Earth’s rotation and why it may force timekeepers to delete a second ...

The revelation that Earth’s rotation is shifting at speeds not seen in 3.6 million years is a wake-up call for both the scientific community and the general public. It underscores the profound ...

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...

Wednesday, July 9 is going to be one of this year's shortest days, but you probably won't be able to tell. Here's why several milliseconds will be shaved off the clock on Wednesday, and when you can ...

WASHINGTON — Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

The water contained in the Earth's dams has impacted where its poles are and how fast it spins, but this one dam is making a ...

Climate change is messing with time itself. The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The rate of Earth’s rotation is affected by climate change, ...

Earth takes 24 hours to complete a full rotation in a standard day, equal to exactly 86,400 seconds. July 9 was the first of three days in which a millisecond or more could be shaved off the clock on ...