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As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.
Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
MP Materials has announced plans to expand rare earth mining and processing operations as Washington seeks to end its ...
July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected ...
What’s your guess for Earth’s most isolated island? It’s not Hawaii. It’s not Fiji. In fact, if you’re thinking beaches, palm ...
When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...
Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has ...
For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages ...