According to the website, Earth spins faster when the Moon’s orbit takes it significantly north or south relative to the ...

The Moon takes about 27.3 days to perform one complete orbit around the Earth. And that's the same time that it takes for the Moon to perform one rotation on its spin axis. (Yes, that's right, the ...

Of the moon, we always see a hemisphere and a little more because its rotation is synchronous and blocked by the tide. This means that one lunar rotation on its axis corresponds to the time of ...

Physicists expect that this summer will be the shortest day in the history of observations.

Space crash: New research suggests huge asteroid shifted Jupiter's moon Ganymede on its axis An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that struck Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs ...