Back in 2023, scientists were already puzzled by the Earth’s accelerating rotation, while some speculated that global warming ...

Scientists have found that Earth is spinning slightly faster than normal, resulting in shorter days, though the reason ...

The International Rotation and Reference Systems Service found that July 9, July 22, and August 5 will be victims of the time ...

From the point of view of the sun, it takes Earth roughly 86,400 seconds (24 hours) to complete one full rotation. This ...

EARTH is set to have three unexpectedly shorter than average days in the coming weeks – and it’s taken scientists by surprise ...

However, the atomic clock continues to race ahead, so at least once every 10 years scientists add an extra second to the UTC to keep them closer together. It's particularly important for things ...

The planet’s rotation was completed 1.59 milliseconds short of a 24-hour day on June 29, breaking the record for the world’s shortest day in modern history.

Then came the era of highly precise atomic clocks, which proved a much more stable way of defining a physical second. From the late 1960s, the world started using coordinated universal time (UTC ...