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

Get ready for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment this July 9th, as our planet is poised to experience one of the shortest days ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting today. This will technically result in shorter days, but the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice.

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, and satellite communications specialist Tesat have been working on the ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.