Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

By comparison, Venus’s axial tilt is around 2.7°. “That means a tiny little cone in the sky and a motion of the pole of only 2″ per year.” ...

[Nathaniel Fairfield] aka [thandal] was curious about the actual rotation and axis tilt of Venus. He decided to spin up at GitHub Python repository to study the issue further, as one does. The scie… ...

On Venus, the sun very slowly rises in the west and sets in the east. You can see an animation of the tilt, direction, and speed of our solar system's planets below.

Uranus, for example, is tilted over and rotates on its side. And there's something very strange about Venus: it spins backwards. Earth and most other planets in the solar system rotate from west ...

Future Venus flybys, such as the one in December 2026, will further tilt the spacecraft's orbit and enable high-resolution imaging of the sun's entire polar regions.

The summer solstice – the precise moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky each year – is Wednesday, June 21, at 10:58 a.m. EDT. In reality, it has felt like summer for several ...

If true, Venus-like extrasolar planets might also be expected to exhibit the same backward rotation. “It is a general result and will apply to any planet with a heavy atmosphere,” confirms Laskar.

Venus spins on its axis almost upright - meaning it lacks discernable seasons - while Earth has more of a tilt. The study calculated the Venusian tilt at about 2.64 degrees. Earth's is about 23.5 ...