In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result in shorter days, but the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the influence of technology on our world and beyond." ...

In the coming weeks, Earth is expected to rotate slightly faster than usual, causing several days to be marginally shorter.

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

A solar day should last exactly 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours. The scientific community is concerned about how the Earth's rotation is accelerating. In this regard, astrophysicist Gr ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...