“To spin faster it would have to be hit just right by the right object, and that would liquify the crust so we’d be dead anyway.” This post has been updated. It was originally published in 2017.

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors Some stars nearing the end of their lives slow their spin in a "retirement solo" that ...

Earth just spun faster than ever recorded. Why it matters for timekeeping, GPS, and a future where the planet moves ahead of ...

Scientists from TU Delft (The Netherlands) have observed quantum spin currents in graphene for the first time without using ...

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 second. For the first time in history, world ...

Scientists have been left baffled after discovering the Earth is spinning faster than normal — making days shorter than usual. New measurements by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory show ...

Scientists are considering shortening the minute to 59 seconds to make up for the Earth’s faster spin speed. Some say at least one “leap second” might have to be subtracted from a minute to ...

As such, they should be able to accurately predict which side of the potentially hazardous asteroid will be spinning into the Sun’s light. A NASA rendering of its asteroid probe, OSIRIS-REx.