Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'. Down at the quantum scale of buzzing ...

Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.

People are obsessed with time. Sun movement defined a day and its parts. Seasonal changes and the movements of stars helped to measure seasons. Records of time measurement started way before writing ...

The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...

The white pickup truck pulls up to a decommissioned space observatory on top of Mount Blue Sky, one of Colorado’s famous “14ers,” mountains that reach more than 14,000 feet high. The scene is stark on ...

Facebook unveiled a new product this week called Flicks, which is a new measure of time that is about 1/705,600,000 of a second, according to The Verge. For context, a nanosecond is defined as 1/1,000 ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. If we think of time at all it is as a dimension: something we travel through, an ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in conjunction with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) established a new measure, “Healthy Days ...

Instead of creating a list of priorities and then scheduling them into your week, Narayanaswamy suggests reversing the process to maximize how much time you have to spend. “Just like a Fitbit measures ...