Earth's Days Are Getting Longer At Unprecedented Rate Not Seen in 3.6 Million Years

  • Publish date: Wednesday، 13 May 2026 Reading time: 1 min read
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Researchers have found that Earth is rotating in bizarre ways and over time, days are getting longer. The change is small, and undetectable in everyday life, but at the current rate it has not been seen over the past millions of years, the researchers say. This intriguing change is linked to the Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon, movements in the Earth and even climatic changes. All this is doing is subtly changing the duration of one of our planet's days.