Progress M-31 (92P) — Flight engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy opened the hatch leading into the newly docked ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

(Web Desk) - Growing fresh food hundreds of thousands of kilometres from Earth is one of the greatest challenges facing permanent human bases on the Moon and Mars. But the seeds of a rice ideal for ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Scientists have revealed exactly when the next shortest days will occur as Earth's rotation speeds up once again.

Discover why Earth’s rotation is accelerating, how lunar gravity and climate changes play a role, and what it means for timekeeping.

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...

Head outside after the sun sets Thursday and you might catch a glimpse of a spectacular sight rising in the night sky.

The buck moon is the first full moon in July and will be one of the most clearly visible lunar events of the year.

A solar day should last exactly 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours. The scientific community is concerned about how the Earth's rotation is accelerating. In this regard, astrophysicist Gr ...

Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...