Crinia is a unique 5-kilometer asteroid that shares Earth’s orbit in a rare one-to-one rhythm. Despite its nickname as Earth’s “second moon, ” it actually orbits the sun with a looping path that ...

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

The best views of the September 2025 total lunar eclipse will be in Asia and western Australia. According to Time and Date, a ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Several things affect Earth’s spinning speed. The Moon is one of them. When it’s far from Earth’s equator, our planet spins a ...

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

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

On average, from the point of view of the sun, the Earth completes one full rotation around its axis every 24 hours or 86,400 seconds, give or take a few milliseconds. A millisecond (ms) is 0.001 of a ...

If it feels like summer is flying by, science says you’re not imagining it. Starting Wednesday, Earth is literally spinning ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...