Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned recycled materials into a backyard radio telescope capable of detecting the ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of oriented-bounding-box-based (OBB-based) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection, which include the large model volume, the imbalance of positive and negative ...

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

Warming global temperatures, caused by heat-trapping air pollution, have led to the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets in Antarctica. In a new study published in Nature Communications, ...

Well, Jamie’s Flea Market in South Amherst, Ohio has created its own devoted following of bargain hunters who’ll argue that ...

On certain trans-Pacific flights, you can "time travel" by crossing the International Date Line. For example, if you want to go from San Francisco to Tokyo, and your flight departs at 5:00 p.m. on ...

Solar spectral irradiance (SSI) plays an important role in the ionosphere–thermosphere–mesosphere (ITM) system and in the Earth’s exosphere. Characteristics such as the exospheric density provides ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

California is set to experience one of its shortest days on record — and, no, it’s not because summer is winding down in the Northern Hemisphere. The Earth’s full rotation on its axis is gaining speed ...

Blink and you missed it, quite literally. Today, Earth spun faster than usual, racing through one of its shortest days since records began and trimming more than a millisecond off the clock. It was ...