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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams to address Earth from orbiting international Space Station

Meanwhile, crew of the Polaris Dawn the Elon Musk-led private charted spaceflight created history w…

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Sep 13 2024 06:11 IST

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Human activities are changing Earth's spin so much that it might affect how we keep time

Human-driven climate change is causing Earth's poles to lose so much ice it's changing the planet's…

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Mar 29 2024 16:22 IST

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Once in a leaping blue moon: Leap day babies don birthday hats after four-year wait

Birthdays are special, and what when they come only once in four years? Well, the day then just tak…

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Feb 29 2024 08:22 IST

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This animation shows why leap years are necessary. Without them, December would eventually drift into summer.

Leap years are necessary because, without them, December would drift into summer over time. The pur…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   

Feb 28 2024 00:49 IST

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A mom gave birth to 3 leap day babies. It's only the second case recorded in the world.

The Estes family has 3 leaplings or leap day babies. The siblings were born in 3 consecutive leap y…

Jane Ridley   

Feb 29 2024 19:18 IST

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Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles

This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bri…

Marianne Guenot   

Nov 22 2023 17:20 IST

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SIMPLY PUT: Earth is spinning faster and here’s how it could impact your lives

However, this wasn’t just a one-time fluke. Earth has been in a hurry in recent years. As pe…
Aug 04 2022 21:01 IST

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OPINION: Leaping into the future with Gen Z

However, there’s a sweet dichotomy in the findings on Gen Z—as much as they crave autonomy a…
Apr 06 2022 09:17 IST

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Billionaires going to space aim to industrialize the moon, asteroids, and Mars. It's time to set some ground rules.

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have huge plans in space, but there are no laws or regul…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   

Mar 25 2024 10:20 IST

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Despite how it may have felt, 2020 was shorter than previous years - Earth is spinning quicker than it has in decades

Earth beat the record for shortest day ever 28 times in 2020. In 2021, scientists predict the plane…

Susie Neilson   

Jan 09 2021 14:28 IST

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2 cicada broods are popping up together for the first time in 221 years — and they'll meet in Illinois

Two broods of periodical cicadas will emerge simultaneously for the first time in 221 years in the …

Hannah Getahun   

Jan 15 2024 14:18 IST

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Inflation leaped again in December to the fastest pace since 1982

The Consumer Price Index — a closely watched inflation measure — leaped 7% year-over-year in Decemb…

Ben Winck   

Jan 12 2022 15:59 IST

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China is set to launch the next piece of its space station on Sunday — in a rocket that previously rained parts back onto Earth

The Long March 5B rocket has launched twice before, and both times its heavy body fell back to Eart…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   

Jul 23 2022 02:44 IST

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May 16 2022 15:41 IST

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An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet

All planetary systems have a barycenter, a point where their mass is balanced. In the Earth-moon sy…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   

Apr 01 2021 14:48 IST

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A simple animation by a planetary scientist reveals what would happen without leap years: December would eventually drift into summer

O'Donoghue spends his free time making animations of astronomy concepts like the moon's retreat fro…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   

Feb 20 2020 17:50 IST