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

NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope ...

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 ...

The twist: Crowe is, in fact, dead all along. He got killed during a robbery that we see in the film’s opening scene. The set ...

In March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan, and moved the Earth's axis, shortening our days ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

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 ...

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

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

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