NASA scientists are moving on from typical atomic clocks and using optical light and strontium atoms to build a new future.

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In current atomic clocks, 300 million ... This trap is a ball of atoms cooled to temperatures near absolute ...

To control for it, GPS clocks are set to check the time and correct themselves regularly. But in outer space, critical functions like communication and navigation require even greater clock ...

When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launched in late 2021 the work for ... While the CU Boulder physicists were working around the clock on campus, Edmund Ball—the president of a well-known glass ...

Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of 'clocks' in the early ... that quasars truly play ball with the cosmos," said Lewis.

It's Memorial Day, Short Wavers. This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time ... and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right now, perched on satellites all over Earth.