The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

On certain trans-Pacific flights, you can "time travel" by crossing the International Date Line. For example, if you want to go from San Francisco to Tokyo, and your flight departs at 5:00 p.m. on ...

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield ...

But now—thanks to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, ...

Earth’s quicker spin challenges civil time as experts weigh a first negative leap second to keep satellites, networks, and ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society & Academy, Vienna University, explains the intriguing areas of information and entropy, plus ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted a powerful coronal flare (cme) from a star other than the Sun.

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on exoplanets.

If the Brewers don't trade Freddy Peralta, their 2026 rotation could look an awful lot the way it did in 2025 – and that's a ...

There's a patch of sky that has experts at NASA transfixed. It shows 30 galaxies that all appear to be facing the direction ...