With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.
The rotation is slowing down due to tidal friction from the Moon, lengthening the day by approximately 1.7 milliseconds per century.
The images were taken with 170-second exposures using the WFC3 UVIS (F350LP) camera at a central wavelength of 0.5851 micron, ...
The familiar 24‑hour day is based on how long it takes the Sun to return to the same position in our sky, not on an ...