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On Wednesday evening, the moon will cover up the planet Mars. Don't miss this must-see event.

Much of North America can witness a delightful astronomical event on the evening of December 7 as the moon blocks out Mars

Chinas space-based observatory sends first solar image-

An international group of experts has voted to retire the leap second by 2035.

11, 2022, said Gan Weiqun, the satellites principal scientist from PMO under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).　　Gan said the image was taken by the satellite-loaded hard X-ray imager (HXI).

Leap seconds were an elegant solution when first proposed but have become diabolical in software implementation.

Shutterstock Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on “leap seconds” – the little j

Leap seconds don't make any difference to the lives of the people, they can cause problems for a range of systems that require an exact time.

Roughly every four years, an extra day gets tacked onto the end of February, a time-keeping convention known as the leap year. The practice of adjusting the calendar with an extra day was established by Julius Caesar more than 2,000 years ago and modified in the 16th century by Pope Gregory XIII, bequeathing us the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re proposing to ditch it. Will our days ever be the same?