The White House on Tuesday told NASA to work with international agencies to come up with a new moon-centric, speeded-up time reference system. NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to ...

Perhaps the greatest, mind-bending quirk of our universe is the inherent trouble with timekeeping: Seconds tick by ever so slightly faster atop a mountain than they do in the valleys of Earth. For ...

NASA and its international partners have big plans when it comes to the Moon—plans that will require the careful synching of Earth-based clocks with those on the Moon. The White House wants NASA to ...

Does the moon have its own timezone? How do we tell time there? Scientists want to create a standardized lunar clock, but it’s complicated. Photo from Ganapathy Kumar via Unsplash When the moon hits ...

Timing is everything these days. Our communications and GPS networks all depend on keeping careful track of the precise timing of signals—including accounting for the effects of relativity. The deeper ...

We love clocks, but we especially love unusual timepieces that aren’t just about showing the hour of the day. [Simone Giertz] built a flip clock moon phase tracker for a friend. While in Egypt for ...

Pacific Time, Eastern Time, Greenwich Mean Time — and one day, perhaps, Moon Time? With dozens of lunar missions planned for the years ahead — including ones to build bases and other habitats on the ...

FILE - The moon rises behind the Home Place clock tower in Prattville, Ala., Saturday, June 22, 2013. NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its ...