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The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
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How the Moon’s Subtle Tug and Climate Change Are Reshaping Earth’s Spin and the Future of TimekeepingJuly 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...
While that tiny time difference is imperceptible to humans, it represents part of a broader pattern that has left scientists ...
The pull of the moon is also slowing the Earth's rotation, an effect known as tidal braking, which increases the length of our day by 2.3 milliseconds per century.
But the synchronous rotation is not perfect, so the Moon does not always show exactly the same face to the Earth. We can actually see slightly over half of the Moon's surface, about 59 per ...
Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result.
Earth is bidding farewell to a tiny asteroid that joined its orbit for nearly two months. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, is set to be drawn away from Earth by the powerful pull of the sun on ...
Climate change surpasses the moon's influence. In the PNAS study, the ETH Zurich researchers show that climate change is also increasing the length of the day by a few milliseconds from its ...
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