"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Our readers continue to grapple with this one, with the latest batch of answers giving a more hopeful response to any readers ...

Ecopia, founded in 2013, specializes in using artificial intelligence to extract features from high-resolution satellite imagery and build what it calls a “digital twin of the Earth.” Its machine ...

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Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

James O'Donoghue receives funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why. The days are getting shorter and not just because summer is waning in the ...

Tomorrow might be a shorter day — but you’ll barely be able to tell. Scientists say that Earth will spin a tad faster than usual on Tuesday — shortening the usual 24-hour day by 1.25 to 1.51 ...

The summer is winding down and there might be even less of it this week. As the Earth spins faster this summer, the days are just slightly shorter. But those milliseconds are adding up. Other WRAL Top ...

It follows other unusually short days this summer—July 9 (1.3 ms shorter) and July 22(1.38 ms)—all part of a trend that began in 2020. The current record was set on July 5, 2024, when the day was 1.66 ...

If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...