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

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

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

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

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

If it feels like summer is flying by, science says you’re not imagining it. Starting Wednesday, Earth is literally spinning ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Earth is expected to complete a full rotation on July 9 roughly 1.30 milliseconds faster than usual. WASHINGTON — Wednesday ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...