The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

Now Shaq is doing it. Is it possible that current and former members of the NBA have mutually agreed to troll the planet -- which is provably spherical in shape -- with preposterous flat-Earth ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.

While that tiny time difference is imperceptible to humans, it represents part of a broader pattern that has left scientists ...

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures, notably in the ancient Near East, subscribed to a flat-Earth ...

Debate put to rest? It’s not yet clear whether Nuvvuagittuq outcrops will become widely accepted as Earth’s oldest rocks, according to other scientists who were not involved with the research.