It's easy to take Earth's constant rotation for granted. Every 24 hours, our planet completes a full spin on its axis, giving us day and night, powering wind patterns, and maintaining a delicate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth is spinning faster this summer, leading astronomers to notice that some days have clocked in at slightly less than the ...

In many parts of the world, people are enjoying long summer days. But few know that the Earth is spinning faster than usual. This faster spin has made some recent days the shortest since modern clocks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are many pieces of evidence to help explain why the Earth spins, and some major mysteries. Jose Luis Pelaez ...

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 timekeepers ...

Scientists announced Monday that Earth is rotating slightly faster than normal, resulting in what is expected to become the second-shortest day ever recorded since precise atomic timekeeping began.

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 timekeepers ...

(CNN) — Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting ...