Ask someone on Earth for the time and they can give you an exact answer, thanks to our planet's intricate timekeeping system, ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy ...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" for an ancient marine creature that used Earth's ...

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

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

Mars clocks tick faster than Earth’s! Discover the groundbreaking findings that could revolutionize space exploration.

Summary: Time doesn’t flow uniformly across the solar system, and new research reveals just how differently it unfolds on Mars compared with Earth. By tracing subtle gravitational and orbital ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Scientists say that Mars may need its own time zone as they calculate that clocks on the red planet will tick 477 ...

The most powerful geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle has just torn into the invisible bubble of charged particles that surrounds our planet, stripping away roughly three quarters of its ...