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Animated timeline of the Earth's history
The Earth is really, really old. Over 4 1/2 billion years old, in fact. How do we begin to comprehend a number that large? It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's ...
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Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.
On the left side of the animation, numbers indicate the speeds of Earth's rotation, its orbit around the sun, the solar system's orbit around the Milky Way's center, and the galaxy hurtling ...
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Watch How: Jupiter Spins In Animated Hubble Space Telescope Observations
Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...
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The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.
A new animation ... The Earth spins faster than the moon orbits it, so as the bulge rotates away, it pulls the moon along with it. The moon pulls back, and that slows the Earth's rotation.