Time is what we want most, but use worst,” William Penn once wrote. But for the first time in the annals of modern times, the very fabric of timekeeping is being threatened by no human weakness, but ...

Anyone trotting out the well-worn "it’s been a long day" line on July 22 might end up having to rephrase, as Earth is set for ...

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.

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The planet’s spin hasn’t always been this way. Scientists say a day used to be just 19 hours long. Back then, tides from the ...

For billions of years, the Moon's gravity has been acting like a handbrake slowing down our spin in a process known as 'tidal ...

Earth will complete its rotation slightly faster than usual on Tuesday, July 22, resulting in one of the shortest days ever recorded. The ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...