The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...

Therefore, astronomers might expect that all of the planets in the solar system would spin in the same direction as the sun. "To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it to a ...

New research shows that pumping groundwater has resulted in a change to the planet's tilt and rotation, increasing sea levels ...

While Earth’s days have been gradually lengthening for billions of years due to tidal forces from the Moon, climate change is ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day. A few milliseconds added to that 24-hour period could ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...

The distribution of water on the planet affects how mass is distributed. A study by Nature showed higher sea levels have slowed down Earth’s rotation because they change the concentration of the ...

It spins at 1000 miles an hour, taking 24 hours to complete a full rotation. Relentlessly travelling through space, it undertakes a full orbit of the Sun every year, giving the planet its seasons.