It's fun to have Venus on the scene again. You can spot it at dusk very low in the northwestern sky starting about 20 minutes after sundown. Look for a solitary yellowish point of light struggling ...

In our solar system, nearly all planets follow a specific pattern. As they move around the Sun, they also spin on their own axes. Most of these planets rotate in an anticlockwise direction. This ...

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 ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, crawls through a day that outlasts its year, and even changes its spin rate in ...

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 ...

Researchers describe a system of multiple planets orbiting a star that rotates backward. Unlike the Solar System, extrasolar planetary systems sometimes exhibit misalignment between the star's equator ...

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 ...