River Cleanup, a global organization dedicated to making rivers plastic free, sponsored 14 events in honor of Call to Earth Day, encouraging volunteers around the world — in Belgium, the Democratic ...

This work was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Human Research Program under Grant No. 80NSSC21K0257. Torin Clark receives funding from NASA, the Office of Naval Research ...

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James O'Donoghue receives funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Earth will complete a rotation 1.33 milliseconds earlier than usual on Tuesday, August 5. That makes it ...

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes ...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a lunar transit and an Earth eclipse on July 25 — the first when the moon passed between it and the sun, and another when Earth did the same. When you purchase ...

For the second year in a row, Earth Day will be celebrated around the world in the middle of a global pandemic that is keeping people from gathering in large groups. Below are some ideas if you are ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer. By Jacey Fortin This article was updated ...

July 9 was unusually short thanks to changes in how fast the Earth is spinning. But two other days this summer are expected to be even shorter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The Earth is pretty good at keeping its pace. However, variations do happen. And on three separate days this summer—July 9, July 22, and August 5—the Earth will spin notably faster than usual. Of ...

Although the Earth completes one full rotation in 86,400 seconds on average, that spin fluctuates by a millisecond or two every day. Before 2020, the Earth never experienced a day shorter than the ...