The costly effects of climate change may dent more than our wallets by the 2030s. Researchers found that Earth’s rotation is speeding up ever so slightly due to melting ice caps, which could force ...

Earth is spinning so fast that global timekeepers are considering something that's never been done before: adding a negative leap second. So far this year, July 9 and July 22 have been unusually short ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth is spinning faster this summer, leading astronomers to notice that some days have clocked in at slightly less than the ...

No leap second will be added to universal time in 2024, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced. An additional second has previously been added to the ...

On 10 July 2025, the Earth finished one rotation in 1.36 milliseconds short of the usual 24 hours a record in a string of remarkably brief days in recent times. For most people, a millisecond is lost ...

GENEVA (AP) – The leap second may live on for at least another three years. Once or twice a year, the leap second can be tacked on to synchronize atomic clocks _ the world’s scientific timekeepers _ ...

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to think about calendars. In ancient Rome, the first day of each month was the “calends,” thus our word. This is a leap year, as will be 2028, 2032, and 2036. To ...