The Earth is picking up speed, and it’s forcing scientists and timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move. According to ...

Ample sunshine, ice cream, and afternoons at the beach might leave you wishing that summer would never end. Unfortunately, ...

Until now, the sun has been the only star for which it has been possible to extract a rotational profile, given the distance of other stars. In their study, however, Tuomi and colleagues were able ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

The Sun’s differential rotation is controlled by high-latitude baroclinically unstable inertial modes. Science Advances , 2024; 10 (13) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk5643 Cite This Page : ...

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

Mercury spins on its axis very slowly and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days. However, its orbit around the Sun is speedy compared to other planets. Mercury circles the Sun every 88 ...

El-Badry also has an interest in finding unseen dormant black holes in orbit with Sun-like stars. Using Gaia data, he has found two of these quiet black holes hidden in our galaxy.