Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, ...

The Coriolis effect is the apparent bending of winds and currents caused by Earth’s rotation, shaping the swirl of storms and ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope suggests the universe rotates inside a black hole. Credit: 852278-MCS / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical equations ...

A recent study has unveiled how chemical elements and powerful winds shape the atmosphere of a planet far beyond our solar system. By examining separate layers of the planet’s atmosphere in 3D, the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Forget hurricanes and heat waves—on WASP-121b, the weather is on another level. Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s ...

Astronomers have mapped the winds of an exoplanet, revealing ferocious storms and unexpected chemical patterns. WASP-121b’s atmosphere is unlike anything in our Solar System, marking a breakthrough in ...

PICTURED ABOVE: An artist’s impression of the small moon of Mimas which may very well hold a subsurface ocean. PC: Frédéric Durillon, Animea Studio Observatoire de Paris – PSL, IMCCE Reprinted with ...

As NASA prepares to send off the DAVINCI mission to the planet Venus, experts say there is a lot about Earth’s sister planet that may come as a surprise to many. As we learned about the DAVINCI ...