“Picking up that same object that I’ve been holding so much on the space station and feeling it here on Earth was crazy to me ...

But the photograph, captured from the International Space Station (ISS ... Pettit added: “Visible are circular star trails ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

The three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut spent 232 days aboard the International Space Station, according to NASA ...

An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.

View of Earth from space. Image source: studio023 / Adobe To fully understand how these human-built megastructures affect Earth’s rotation, though, we have to dig into the math a little bit.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day.

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. Science is hard ... new findings that researchers say shows the rotation of Earth’s inner core is slowing down relative ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

The International Space Station will provide a permanent facility in orbit for continuing technical and scientific work. It will be operated by rotating crews from Earth, including personnel who ...

The project will also advance space mining technologies ... in what form it would return to Earth. The proposed launch system ...

As well as rotating, the Earth has a tilt in its axis ... Wherever she is, in space, on Earth, or even on Jupiter, she's still made of the same amount of stuff. But on Jupiter, she would feel ...