Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during ...

Earth’s rotation is slowing, lengthening days by milliseconds due to the Moon and climate change. A 25-hour day is millions of years away. Learn more.

The rotation is slowing down due to tidal friction from the Moon, lengthening the day by approximately 1.7 milliseconds per ...

Rumors about days extending to 25 hours may hold some truth as scientists observe a gradual slowdown in Earth's rotation.

The familiar 24‑hour day is based on how long it takes the Sun to return to the same position in our sky, not on an ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS puzzles scientists with a sunward anti-tail and wobbling jets, revealing secrets of alien solar ...

Tech and communication sectors outperform as gold and silver surge. Discover why experts favor tech and precious metals for ...

Astronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a ...

New research examines the theory that this biblical phenomenon was actually a comet, and subjects it to mathematical ...