The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

The Earth is predicted to make its fastest rotations on July 9, July 10, July 22 and August 5, according to a Time and Date ...

While it’s unlikely anyone would notice a missing millisecond, there’s potential this speed-up could have ramifications for ...

Our respondents are quick to point out the issues with using Earth’s rotation to get to a destination, not least the ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation, explained. "Ocean and atmospheric ...

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

A new dysprosium complex retains magnetic memory at 100K, the highest temperature recorded for this class of compound. The ...

Evidence that the universe is rotating was recently delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which found that ...

The orbital angular momentum is one of the fundamental quantum numbers of the electron, similar to spin, which describes the apparent rotation of the electron.

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA "STEMonstrations" video. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center ...

A study from Technion unveils a newly discovered form of quantum entanglement in the total angular momentum of photons confined in nanoscale structures. This discovery could play a key role in the ...