These tides may keep Venus moving slightly in a clockwise direction. A singular rotation of Venus takes 243 days on Earth, according to NASA. Farther out in the solar system is another oddball ...

It helps to visualize this: Earth’s inner core is ... releases from previous research on the rotation of the core that seem to suggest it changes direction, which Plait says are misleading.

As I quickly discovered, you can spin it in the direction that the earth actually spins. There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. We call it the rotation axis.

Wow, maybe we really should reverse Earth's rotation! But hold on. If the Trade Winds reverse direction, it means that other wind patterns change too. Including the Prevailing Westerlies that ...

It was the first satisfactory demonstration of the earth's rotation using laboratory apparatus rather than astronomical observations. If you start a Foucault Pendulum swinging in one direction, after ...

Yet, NASA issued a startling warning about the potential consequences of filling the dam. The space agency cautioned that such a massive accumulation of water could slightly alter Earth’s rotation.

"A few years ago, there were predictions in the other direction." How melting ice slows Earth's spin One is tidal friction, or the interaction between moving ocean water and the ocean floor ...

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

One of humanity's largest ever projects is slowing down the spin of the Earth, making our days slightly longer. Work on China ...

Despite being known as Earth’s evil twin ... Chief among those is the fact that it spins in the wrong direction. Now, some researchers believe they may have solved the mystery of Venus ...

Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s day time, when it’s facing away from the Sun that's night time. One spin of the Earth is how we measure one ...