Imagine a massive celestial body colliding with Uranus at high speed; this impact could have 'overturned' Uranus, causing its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Resonating oscillations of a planet's atmosphere caused by gravitational tides and heating from ...

A new study confirms that Earth's inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious "backtracking" could also end up slightly altering the planet's overall rotation, ...

Time and tide, as the ancient saying goes, wait for no one. But what is a tide? The word “tide” is a bit confusing; most people think of it as the ebb and flow of the ocean at the beach, caused by the ...

For years, scientists have been unable to agree on the length of a day on Venus, but one new study might put an end to this confusion. The planet Venus rotates very slowly, with a single revolution ...

Earth’s rotation has a significant effect on our weather. In the Northern Hemisphere, planetary rotation deflects a moving mass to the right and in the Southern to the left. In inertial space, such ...