It's easy to take Earth's constant rotation for granted. Every 24 hours, our planet completes a full spin on its axis, giving us day and night, powering wind patterns, and maintaining a delicate ...

Click through the following gallery and find out the spin on living in a world that never turned again.

The Earth is pretty good at keeping its pace. However, variations do happen. And on three separate days this summer—July 9, July 22, and August 5—the Earth will spin notably faster than usual. Of ...

(CNN) — Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting ...

A strange piece of physics known as the tennis racket theorem raises unsettling questions about the stability of Earth’s spin ...

Something unusual is happening to our planet, and scientists are racing to understand why. For billions of years, Earth’s rotation has been gradually slowing down, mainly due to the Moon’s ...

On those three days, just over a millisecond is expected to be shaved off the standard 24-hour day. Of course, you're unlikely to notice such a miniscule difference in your day. But scientists who ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam is so massive that filling its reservoir nudges Earth’s spin by billionths of a second. It’s a tiny ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a ring laser that tracks Earth's axis movements without telescopes or satellites.