Discover the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise. Learn why this 'rebel' planet spins backwards, how a ...

They’re hot, they’re huge and they move the wrong way. In the rapidly growing catalog of planets found outside the solar system, about a dozen Jupiter-sized ones tightly circle their stars in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Venus’ rotation has always been weird. While it completes an ...

You hear it on a pretty regular basis — people blaming a planet in retrograde for a whole host of problems, from a missed bus to a really awkward conversation at a party. But what does it mean when a ...

The stars in the night sky all have their preferred direction of rotation, which depends directly on the exact way that the cloud of gas and dust that the star formed out of collapsed. If there was ...

The following is a transcript of the video. Stand on the equator and you'll be moving at 1,670 kilometers per hour — faster than the speed of sound! That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from ...

Humanity has spent thousands of years understanding billion of years of universal history. Here’s a dizzying look at why the cosmos spin the way they do. *For the why behind this “rotation ...

Visualizing our solar system is one of those third-eye treats that never grows old. The Sun and its gravitationally bound planets, asteroids, etc. are in constant relative motion, and thinking about ...