Our planet is going to spin a little faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, thanks to the moon’s distance from the equator.

Dust and desertification. Astronomers have been mapping Mars for nearly two centuries.The first map of Mars was produced in 1840 by Wilhelm Beer and Johann von Mädler in Germany. But it was ...

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander provides precision details on the red planet’s accelerating rotation and how Mars is wobbling on its axis over a period of days and months.

Over the past few centuries, the Earth's rotation has actually been slowing down ever so slightly, although 2020 saw 28 of the shortest days since records began in the 1960s.

A Martian volcano breaks through the clouds in a spectacular image captured by the Odyssey orbiter. This unprecedented view reveals Arsia Mons, one of Mars' largest volcanoes, emerging from a sea ...

But on Mars, the cause of the speedup is a mystery. It is known that one of the Martian moons, Phobos, is gradually falling, and that indeed is speeding up the rotation of Mars — like a figure ...

To grow food, you need soil. On Earth, soil is composed of five ingredients: minerals, organic matter, living organisms, gases and water. But Mars is covered in a blanket of loose, dust-like ...

To track Mars' spin rate, scientists harnessed the Deep Space Network — NASA's radio dish system on Earth used to communicate with its farthest spacecraft — to send signals to Insight on Mars.

Climate change is causing the ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica to melt. Water from the polar regions is flowing into the world's oceans—and especially into the equatorial region. "This ...

One day on Mars is about 37 minutes longer than an Earth day – but it seems both planets are working to fix the gap. Data from NASA’s InSight lander have revealed Martian days are getting ever ...

Dust and desertification. Astronomers have been mapping Mars for nearly two centuries.The first map of Mars was produced in 1840 by Wilhelm Beer and Johann von Mädler in Germany. But it was ...