First, consider that the Earth spins around like a top. It’s rotating around the imaginary line that runs from the North Pole ...

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 1.36 ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

The planet's seasons are not as immutable as previously thought. Turns out there are parts of the world that have different seasonal timing than those regions even just a short distance away. This ...

As if it's not already hard enough to find the time to do everything you need to do in a day, now you're about to lose another whole millisecond or more. In fact, experts say Tuesday, July 22, could ...

You might have noticed the Big Country doesn’t always feel like it’s following the same seasonal script as the rest of the country. While fall and winter often bring cooler temperatures, it’s not the ...

In these locations, the seasons are out of sync, with plants blooming at different ... Hart and his coauthors looked at 20 years worth of satellite images of Earth and estimated the amount of ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

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 ...