If you feel like you never have enough hours in the day to do everything you want to do, don't worry. You just have to wait ...

Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars. Scientists call this difference crucial to ...

For nearly a billion years, Earth’s rotation stopped slowing down. Locked in a rare cosmic balance, the planet’s day remained ...

The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago, altering the length of our days by fractions of a second. Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) ...

Earth’s rotation is slowly slowing, scientists say, meaning days are getting longer, though the change takes millions of ...

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 rotation is slowing down due to tidal friction from the Moon, lengthening the day by approximately 1.7 milliseconds per ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and ...

A billion years ago, days lasted 19 hours: the balance between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Moon slowed down the Earth ...

It wouldn’t be summer without the stretched out days. The dawns break early and the dusks come late, affording more time for lazy beach trips and long barbecues under the slow curve of the sun. But ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...