Here on Earth, we take for granted the fact that my watch displays the same time as everybody else's watch does, at least within my time zone. And when you step back and think about it, it is kind of ...

Atomic clocks keep time by counting the ‘ticks’ of electrons moving between two energy levels. Physicists have long wanted to count a nuclear tick instead. A nucleus is more shielded than an atom’s ...

Clocks tick faster on Mars than they do on Earth, in part because Mars experiences less gravitational pull from the Sun. Now scientists have calculated just how much faster — 477 microseconds, on ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

Time passes by faster on Mars than on Earth. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The question “What time is it on Mars?” is far ...

Time is not the same everywhere in space. On Mars, it flows on average 477 microseconds more each Earth day (24h) than on Earth, an imperceptible but real difference that originates from the laws of ...

"Nobody knew that before. It improves our knowledge of the theory itself, the theory of how clocks tick and relativity. The passage of time is fundamental to the theory of relativity: how you realize ...

The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync with each other, as well as enable the equivalent of GPS on the red planet.