Time really does move faster on Mars, but the breakthrough that confirms it did not come from a spacecraft’s stopwatch.

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Time runs faster on Mars (477 microseconds/day) due to relativity. Discover how this fundamental physics challenge requires dynamic correction to prevent massive GPS errors and secure future deep ...

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Last year may have zipped by for many adults. It can feel like January happened just yesterday. But for children, last year’s holiday season might seem like it took place forever ago. That gap in how ...

NIST scientists calculated that clocks on Mars would be an average of 477 millionths of a second faster than clocks telling ...