Since 2020, Earth has been rotating unusually fast on its axis, leading scientists to consider whether we should correct for ...

How researchers seek to perfect the study of time 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 ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

According to TimeandDate, Earth will spin unusually fast in July and August, resulting in shorter days. From the point of view of the sun, it takes Earth roughly 86,400 seconds (24 hours) to ...

The Earth is pretty good at keeping its pace. However, variations do happen. And on three separate days this summer—July 9, July 22, and August 5—the Earth will spin notably faster than usual.