Ever Wish You Had More Time In Your Day?

Scientists say Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing due to the Moon’s gravitational pull, a process known as tidal friction. Over millions of years, this tiny slowdown accumulates and researchers estimate a full day could eventually last 25 hours roughly 200 million years from now.

Studies show Earth’s days were already much shorter hundreds of millions of years ago, with some ancient days lasting closer to 22 hours. As the Moon slowly drifts farther away from Earth, the planet’s spin continues losing speed over extremely long timescales.

Scientists stress the change is incredibly slow and completely unnoticeable in human lifetimes adding only milliseconds over centuries but it highlights how dynamic the Earth-Moon system still is.

I’m just hearing that I’ll get an extra hour of sleep!
Lana Backman