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?

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

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

A study by Gondwana Research confirms that the Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise due to the movement of the African continent.

The extraordinary aerial photograph captured by NASA on its Earth Observatory site shows the evolution of a “sea of rotating ...

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 ...

You’ve probably seen a Foucault pendulum in a museum. This Victorian-era science demonstration is named after physicist Léon ...

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 ...