Time ticks faster on the moon by 57 microseconds per Earth day

Astronauts, set your watches. Time on the surface of the moon has been calculated to tick at a rate of 57 millionths of a second a day faster than it does on Earth, a difference that could be crucial as lunar exploration ramps up.

Later this decade, NASA hopes to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, while in the past two years, six uncrewed spacecraft have attempted lunar landings. But increasingly, our lunar timekeeping isn’t up to scratch.