Uh, Earth’s days are getting longer—and they’re not slowing down

The melting of ice sheets causing increased sea levels pushed Earth’s days a little longer. Modern climate change is only ...

Human-driven climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at a rate not seen in 3.6 million years

Today's sea level rise is significant enough to slow the rotation of the planet by just over a millisecond per century.
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Earth’s day was only 19 hours long for a billion years, study finds

Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Curtin University in Australia are reshaping how you understand the rhythm of Earth’s deep past. Led by ...

Earth’s Spin Is Slowing at a Pace Not Seen in Millions of Years—and You Can Guess Why

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...
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Too many satellites? Earth's orbit is on track for a catastrophe—but we can stop it

On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to 1 million satellites to power data centers in space. The proposal ...
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Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn

If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again. With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that ...

Just4Kids: What's below Earth, since space is present in every direction?

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...
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What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our solar system is mostly arranged along one plane in space, as in this not-to-scale artist's diagram. NASA/JPL, CC BY If you’ve ...