Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...
Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before 2020, the Earth never experienced a day shorter than the ...
Earth could see the "shortest day in history" today, scientists have said. Just weeks ago, the planet experienced a day some 1.3 milliseconds shorter than normal - but since then, the Earth's rotation ...