NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

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 ...

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

This year's shortest day—Earth's fastest single rotation—will likely fall on July 9, July 22, or August 5.

People on Earth would be witnessing the shortest day in record since experts began tracking the rotation of the planet in 1973. On average, Earth completes one full rotation on its axis in exactly ...

Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Scientists find Uranus radiates more heat than once believed, reshaping our understanding of giant planets and guiding NASA’s next mission.

Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft and new computer modeling ...

Autonomous vehicles are barreling into the rideshare market. Lyft is asking its human drivers for their collaboration in integration.

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

"Nobody Expected This": Earth's Rotation Will Speed Up In July And August, Bucking The Downward Trend “The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation ...