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

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

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

Earth may experience its shortest day ever, with the Moon’s position speeding up the planet’s rotation by about 1.3-1.6 milliseconds.

Evidence that the universe is rotating was recently delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which found that ...

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 ...

The sun will eventually become a red giant, engulfing Earth in about 5 billion years. More solar energy hits Earth in one ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our place within the multiverse.

The original map to Earth, designed by Frank Drake, uses 14 pulsars to point toward home. Until recently, the earliest draft of Drake’s map lived in his closet, tucked into a tomato box.

Shux led a pivotal experiment focusing on cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms with immense potential for ...

The earthquake caused the planet to spin slightly faster, shortening the length of a day on Earth by 1.8 microseconds—about one-millionth of a second. Scientists are more interested in how the ...

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