However, doubts remain because the Moon does not follow an equatorial orbit, as the collision model would suggest. Darren Williams and Michael Zugger, building on this observation, argue that the Moon ...

In a quiet week for rocket launches worldwide, SpaceX has launched the 500th orbital flight of a Falcon 9 during its first of ...

This is because the planet's rotation has entered an unexpected period of acceleration, but what would happen if it kept ...

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth?

Each tick of the clock marks a second in a day, normally 86,400 of them. But on July 9, 2025, Earth completed its rotation 1.3 milliseconds faster than usual, making it at least the shortest day this ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

The bombardment only seems to have fallen on 30 percent of the exposed landmass, all within the equatorial region ...

We investigate an equatorial plasma depletion (EPD) event in Japan near the early morning sector (04:30-7:30 LT) during the recovery phase of a geomagnetic storm occurred on Memorial weekend (May 28) ...

The main contribution of this research is to provide information related to the advantages of operating equatorial-polar AIS constellation regarding its in-orbit performance. The results could become ...

The Fram2 will be the first time humans will orbit Earth's polar regions after it took off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Spectrum News photo ...