What if the Earth's core suddenly stopped spinning? Well, that would be wild! The magnetic field protecting us from harmful space radiation could weaken or even disappear, making Earth a target ...

A faster-spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract ‘negative leap second’ in 2029 By . Associated Press. Published March 27, 2024, 1:55 p.m. ET.

Earth takes about 24 hours to rotate, but the key word is about. For thousands of years, the Earth has been generally slowing down, with the rate varying from time to time, said Agnew and Judah ...

Earth’s inner core stopped spinning. But don’t fret, it appears this happens from time to time, say every seven decades or so. A new study published in Nature Geoscience by geophysicists Yi ...

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 ...

That sloshing around can influence the speed of the Earth’s spin, ABC reported. Some scientists think this could be the beginning of a new period of shorter days, Interesting Engineering reported.

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.

In the early 1970s, relative to someone standing on Earth’s surface, the inner core was not spinning. From then, the inner core has gradually spun faster eastward, eventually overtaking the ...

Earth's rotation has been increasing making June 29 being the shortest day ever recorded since the introduction of the atomic clock. Scientists have some ideas why.