From meteor showers to constellations, here's everything you need to know about observing the summer sky using the unaided ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an ...

Venus Revealed: What Her Orbit Tells Us For astronomers ... from its scorching atmosphere to its slow, retrograde rotation. Adding a pop culture twist, Paul McCartney’s song “The Kiss of ...

In fact, the planet completes a full orbit around the Sun faster than ... the energy the impact would need to release to reverse the rotation of Venus would result in the complete destruction ...

Warmer air near the equator then flows toward the pole, where it’s deflected by Earth’s rotation ... context.” Venus and Mars, the planets that flank Earth’s orbit around the sun, are ...

All attempts to fill this gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which was ... have compensated the earth's rotation and kept the telescope ...

The same thing has been asserted of the planet Venus also ... the “solar nebula” extending to the earth's orbit, let us find its time of rotation. We get for this 25.3 days 23,445 109.5 ...

The spacecraft makes its sixth and final flyby on Jan. 8 before returning to enter orbit around the planet ... with an extremely slow rotation that takes more than 10 days to complete.