Ever wondered how the moon pulls the ocean's waves? 🌓 Dive into the fascinating influence of the moon on Earth’s tides and discover the beauty of this natural dance! #Tides #MoonMagic #NatureScience ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

The next full moon is Saturday, Aug. 9, and is sometimes called the Sturgeon Moon. It gets that name from when "The Great ...

Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

There’s a full moon rising in the grit and grind, strive and shine sign of the sea goat. The full buck moon will peak ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...

Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

In 2020, earth hit a record speed. It spun faster than at any time since scientists started tracking it in the 1970s. On July ...

The world spins faster for 3 days straight in July and August, prompting experts to monitor Earth's changing rotation.

Discover why Earth’s rotation is accelerating, how lunar gravity and climate changes play a role, and what it means for timekeeping.