Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Explains how Earths day length could extend to 25 hours over hundreds of millions of years due to lunar tides, and how this ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Google Docs has become the go-to tool for collaborative writing because it is simple, easy to access, and syncs reliably in ...

Deep beneath the ice that defines modern Greenland, scientists have uncovered traces of a very different world, one that ...

I’m a big fan of photography. I’ve been doing it for years, and I know my way around a camera. But I can’t even count how many times, mostly when I was younger, a random man—always a man—stopped me ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint ...

Recently, micro/nanosatellites have become a significant trend in space with the rapid development of space technology, ...

Background Global warming poses a significant threat to human mental health, with disproportionate effects on vulnerable and ...

There’s a moment of pure anticipation when you first spot that massive building just off I-65 at Edinburgh, with those giant letters announcing “EXIT 76 ANTIQUE MALL” like they’re inviting you to the ...