Fiji, an archipelago of breathtaking beauty shimmering in the South Pacific, lies approximately 1,300 miles from Australia’s ...

July 9 will be one of the shortest days ever, as Earth is spinning faster and scientists are still working to understand why.

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

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

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Earth is set to experience unusually short days in July and August 2025. The Moon's orbital position is subtly accelerating ...

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reports that Earth is currently spinning faster, ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

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

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