Earth is set to break records with July 9 marking the shortest day ever recorded, shaving off 1.3–1.5 milliseconds due to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The bright morning star Venus, moving quickly through Taurus, hangs in the predawn sky below the Seven Sisters open cluster.

By focusing on unproven technologies like solar geoengineering and fairy tales of colonising Mars, we are telling our ...

Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim ...

More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of ...

While that tiny time difference is imperceptible to humans, it represents part of a broader pattern that has left scientists ...

A cat “barely responding to touch” was rescued from the backseat of a person’s car while they were being investigated for a ...