For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

A team of researchers led by Philip Walther at the University of Vienna carried out a pioneering experiment where they measured the effect of the rotation of Earth on quantum entangled photons. The ...

The Earth is spinning slightly faster than before, and that means our days are becoming shorter by a tiny fraction of a second. Scientists say this trend has been noticeable since 2020, and by 2029, ...

Earth will be hosting a "mini-moon" starting this weekend. Also sometimes called a "second moon," the small asteroid will rotate Earth for several months. The existence of the asteroid, formally named ...

Earth's slower rotation may mean that universal time will have to skip a second for the first time ever, researchers have found. As climate change escalates the melting of ice caps and rising sea ...

When Earth rotates as normal, the centripetal acceleration of the ground under your feet at the equator has the net effect of reducing the force of gravity on you, so you weigh about 0.3 per cent less ...

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’s inner core may have stopped rotating – and it is potentially about to turn in the opposite direction, in the latest mind-bending science news. Well, Earth has an inner core mainly made up of ...