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

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Meteorological analyst Jean Suriel reported that this Thursday, July 3, the Earth reached its farthest point from the Sun in a phenomenon known as aphelion. At this stage, the planet is approximately ...

The payload is listed as "Commercial GTO-1," which the company hasn't used before. The Dror-1 satellite uses mostly Israeli ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0.2 percent probability that Earth will be involved in a planetary collision ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun (perihelion), ...

Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits: circular and elliptical. In a circular orbit , the spacecraft is always at the same distance from the center of the Earth. As a ...