There are well-worn paths for men who leave the presidency; there’s no mold for the first female vice president who ran for ...

Other scientists, such as Sergei Kopeikin from the University of Missouri and George Kaplan from the US Naval Observatory, ...

Imperial researchers have uncovered a "chemical metronome" in the brain, which helps to synchronize the master clock that ...

An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that can be 100 times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks, the current ...

Using Einstein's theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

(Fun fact: Although the veep of the moment has occupied the house on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory for half a century now, it remains, officially, a temporary residence.) ...

Atomic clocks are so accurate that they have an error rate of approximately 1 second in up to 100 million years.

The ability to safely replenish warships with missiles at sea will go a long way in boosting the US Navy’s capabilities.

Lunchtime launch window! Weather permitting, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch should be visible in the Volusia County sky this ...

Back in April, the White House issued a challenge to scientists to develop a lunar time standard to support future moon bases ...

And hopefully in the weeks since Nov. 5, she’s been kicking back in the Naval Observatory ... as she delivers remarks conceding the 2024 US presidential election at Howard University in ...