If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

Earth spun just a bit faster than usual on July 9 and is expected to do so again on July 22 and Aug. 5, according to the website TimeAndDate. Over a millisecond was reportedly shaved off the clock on ...

Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well, for starters we’d have to make new clocks that only have hours 1 to 6 for am and pm. If you ...

I will assume you're referring to what would happen if Earth stopped rotating all at once, without any gradual reduction in velocity. In that event, most things on Earth would be almost immediately ...

Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

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Seeing the Earth from space never gets old. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently shared a breathtaking time-lapse video that seems to capture the planet in all its glory. Filmed during SpaceX’s CRS-33 ...