Deep in China’s Hubei province, a structure designed to tame nature may also be nudging the planet’s rotation. The Three ...

We still don’t fully understand what determines the rotation rate of giant planets; this is a key open topic in planetary science. Let’s take a look at the differences between the giant ...

Embark on a mind-bending journey as we explore the catastrophic consequences of Earth suddenly stopping its rotation. From ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its ...

just a bit faster than the rest of the planet. Now a study published in Nature Geoscience suggests that around 2009, the core slowed its rotation to whirl in sync with the surface for a time ...

If precise enough, the measurements of the rotation with all of the wobbles place constraints on the structure and composition of the very deep parts of the planet, Dr. Le Maistre said.

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days 1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...

Climate change is causing widespread global impacts, but now scientists are finding that it's altering the very planet itself. Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever ...

Therefore, astronomers might expect that all of the planets in the solar system would spin in the same direction as the sun. "To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it to a ...

Our planet’s rotation measured in at 1.59 milliseconds short of the normal 24-hour day on June 29, according to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, an organization in ...

Why Trust Us? In recent years, the Earth’s rotation has been speeding up due to dynamics in the planet’s liquid outer core. This increase presented the possibility that scientists might soon ...

Languages: English, Spanish The rotation of the Earth's inner core may be reversing, scientists have found in a study that sheds new light on geological processes occurring deep within our planet.