Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

Our planet's rotation is mysteriously slowing down. What if it stopped spinning entirely?

A plasma experiment succeeded in twisting light-like waves, and revealed a new, previously unknown rule of extreme physics.

As of early 2026, there are around 15,800 tonnes of space junk floating in the atmosphere – equivalent to the weight of ...

Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, could be an intact survivor from the planet’s original satellite system, upending ...

In the foothill jungles of the Shivaliks, the night is a display of the lives of creatures that dread daylight; by casting away the ingrained human fears of darkness, an odyssey into the jungles and w ...

When ET phoned home, was he using the Great Pyramid? Aliens might not have built the pyramids, but they may have communicated ...

A routine drilling operation on Mars rarely sounds dramatic, but even small moments can turn unusual in ways scientists do ...

Inside the core, particles collide and release incredible amounts of energy, which radiate out from the Sun in the form of light – a process called nuclear fusion. The light travels outward towards ...

For more than 200 years, scientists have struggled to pin down the exact strength of gravity — and one physicist spent a decade chasing the answer while keeping his own results hidden from himself.