At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...

July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

At first glance, the end credit sequence feels like a joke, not unlike Captain America talking to kids in detention in Spider ...

Well according to astronomers, last night was a few milliseconds 1.3 ms shorter to be precise and there are more days this ...

Each tick of the clock marks a second in a day, normally 86,400 of them. But on July 9, 2025, Earth completed its rotation 1.3 milliseconds faster than usual, making it the shortest day ever recorded ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

But in recent years, scientists have reported variations in Earth’s rotation. In 2020, they found that Earth was spinning ...

In fact, July 9 could end up being the shortest day ever recorded by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems ...

So far, the shortest day ever recorded was July 5, 2024, when Earth rotated 1.66 milliseconds faster than usual. This year, ...