Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...

On July 9, however, as well as on July 22, and August 5, you won’t get your full complement of seconds. On these days the ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

A stadium-sized asteroid, 2005 VO5, is set to approach Earth tomorrow morning. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms its ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Our respondents are quick to point out the issues with using Earth’s rotation to get to a destination, not least the ...

Scientists had assumed that the ice in space was purely amorphous, but new experiments show it can have a partly crystalline ...

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