The shortest day on record may be approaching as Earth spins faster than ever. Learn what’s behind the shift and how this ...

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

Imagine Earth suddenly stops spinning what happens next? From flying debris and mega-tsunamis to magnetic collapse and ...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

We’ve long known that humanity could change ecosystems. Now we know we can tilt the planet itself. According to NASA, ...

But since the 1800s, scientists have tried and failed to make this happen using Earth’s rotation alone. ... It requires no fuel, no movement apart from Earth’s own, and no external power source.

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second local noon. The sidereal day is just a little bit shorter—approximately 23 ...

Earth’s rotation reached record speed in 2025, shortening days by up to 1.63 ms. It could be about to happen again as Earth ...

If the U.S. could tap into just 2 percent of the geothermal power beneath Earth’s crust, it could supply more than 2,000 times our total annual energy consumption.