The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the next few weeks. The rotation of the Earth changes due to several ...

As if it's not already hard enough to find the time to do everything you need to do in a day, now you're about to lose another whole millisecond or more. In fact, experts say Tuesday, July 22, could ...

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 ...

Scientists announced Monday that Earth is rotating slightly faster than normal, resulting in what is expected to become the second-shortest day ever recorded since precise atomic timekeeping began.

The summer is winding down and there might be even less of it this week. As the Earth spins faster this summer, the days are just slightly shorter. But those milliseconds are adding up. Other WRAL Top ...

(Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the ...

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 1.36 ...