"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

NIST physicists report that clocks on Mars tick 477 microseconds faster per day due to weaker gravity and orbital effects.

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon ...

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the marine biologist and climate activist who co-founded the Urban Ocean Lab, received a TIME Earth Award on Oct. 30 at the TIME100 Next Gala, an event bringing together ...

As an astronomer studying the universe beyond Earth, I’m fond of “outside the box” views almost by default. But one of my favorites is whenever a spacecraft takes a snapshot of our home world and the ...

Time doesn't come from your phone. It doesn't come from your watch either. It comes from atoms oscillating in a vacuum — billions of times a second — inside a system that never stops checking itself.

Daylight saving time will end on Nov. 2, in 2025 at 2 a.m., at which time it will reset to 1 a.m. Why do we change the clocks every year? According to the Farmer's Almanac, the idea behind daylight ...