Earth is spinning faster and scientists fear a Y2K-like DoomsdayEarth's accelerating spin is causing concern among scientists due to potential disruptions to global timekeeping systems. July 10 marked th...
22 Jul, 2025, 10.20 PM IST
July 9 is the shortest day ever in history? Scientists call it 'unprecedented, big deal'Earth is expected to spin faster in the coming weeks, leading to unusually short days. On July 9, 2025, Earth will experience one of the sh...
09 Jul, 2025, 10.38 PM IST
24 hours days to end? Expert warns accelartion in earth’s speed can give history’s shortest day soonSince 2020, Earth's rotation has sped up, causing shorter days. Astrophysicist Graham Jones predicts the next shortest day is around the co...
01 Jul, 2025, 02.51 PM IST
Forget the Solstice: The real shortest day of your life might be coming this summer - mark the datesEarth may soon experience its shortest day ever. Scientists predict this could happen on July 9, 22, or August 5. The planet is spinning fa...
26 Jun, 2025, 12.43 AM IST
SpaDex mission: ISRO arrests drift, satellites under control a day after was docking postponedISRO has placed the spacecrafts involved in its Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) into a slow drift course to facilitate their approach aft...
09 Jan, 2025, 09.00 PM IST
NASA shares visual of nebula resembling curved legs of black widow spider; Check it hereNASA has shared a visual of the Red Spider Nebula, located 3,000 light-years away in Sagittarius. The nebula features powerful stellar wind...
12 Sep, 2024, 12.36 PM IST
Melting ice sheets lengthen Earth's days at unprecedented rate, Nasa study findsAs global temperatures rise, melting ice sheets at Earth's poles are lengthening the planet's day at an unprecedented rate, a new study rev...
16 Jul, 2024, 03.34 PM IST
Explained: Earth has its own time then why is US working on a lunar standard timeUnlike Earth, where time progresses uniformly, lunar environment has unique challenges. So to develop a standard time, it may be required t...
13 Apr, 2024, 08.32 PM IST
NASA to invent new time clock with faster seconds? All you need to knowAccording to NASA, the new clock will not be based on any time zones like the Earth, but a completely different frame of time reference for...
03 Apr, 2024, 08.28 PM IST
White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moonThe White House directs NASA to establish a unified lunar time standard to set international space norms. The goal is to ensure precise tim...
03 Apr, 2024, 07.58 AM IST
China to send youngest-ever crew to space stationChina will send its youngest-ever crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station this week, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing pursues ...
26 Oct, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
'Doomsday Clock' set at 90 seconds to midnight amid Ukraine crisis"Russia's war on Ukraine has raised profound questions about how states interact, eroding norms of international conduct that underpin succ...
25 Jan, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
Gaganyaan On, 4 IAF pilots to be trained in RussiaIndian Space Research Organisation chairman K Sivan on Wednesday said that 2020 will be a year of Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan (human spacef...
02 Jan, 2020, 08.04 AM IST
Satellite is still inside fourth stage: Isro chiefSome Isro scientists said that they may have to take a relook at the technology used for the heat shield separation.
01 Sep, 2017, 11.00 AM IST
June 30 will have an extra second: NASAUTC is "atomic time" - the duration of one second is based on extremely predictable electromagnetic transitions in atoms of cesium.
29 Jun, 2015, 02.33 PM IST
ISRO planning next inter-planetary missionThe ISRO Chairman's response came in reply to a question on media reports about ISRO's next inter-planetary mission to Venus in about two-a...
20 May, 2015, 06.11 PM IST
- A lunar pizza outpost is a costly pie-in-the-sky goal, given the logistics
The great plus point in considering a pizza outpost on the moon is the guarantee of no traffic jams and therefore no danger of having to le...
02 Sep, 2011, 06.22 AM IST