Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Therefore, this month’s full moon is credited with the name Beaver Moon. Plus, since this full moon will be at its closest ...

That might not sound like much, but when we’re talking about the Earth’s rotation, every billionth of a second can have a massive effect on our planet and the parts of our world that rely on ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day. A few milliseconds added to that 24-hour period could ...

This massive structure, spanning the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, not only generates enormous amounts of electricity but ...

with a slight slowing of Earth’s rotation observed by atomic clocks. IERS last added a “leap second” on December 31, 2016, to counteract the planet’s slower spin. But in recent years ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...

When Voyager 2 flew past the ice giant 38 years ago, it revealed a magnetosphere warped by solar winds, a finding uncovered through recent analysis of archival data.

Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days 1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...