An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity, confirming early descriptions of a solar eclipse and the Sun's corona.

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds with respect to other distant stars. Scientists call this ...

A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Because this record survived, we know more about ancient Chinese history, the rotation of the Earth, and past solar activity ...

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

They recreate how a camera would see objects traveling at 99.9% of the speed of light, revealing surprising relativistic illusions.

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...