Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in ...

Some dark matter can find its way inside planets, where it can interact with baryonic matter, producing heat and making the planet rotate more quickly. Credit: ESA Dark matter is a confounding concept ...

Dead satellites and drift-prone GPS coordinates aren't your phone's fault — they're side effects of something unprecedented happening to our planet. Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at the ...

The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While scientists have long debated the causes behind the stepwise rise of oxygen, ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...