But do we know which way Earth is spinning? And is it the same direction as the sun and the other planets circling it? The answer is linked to the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius. While the white dwarf won't erupt in a supernova ...

total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes, Earth is suddenly spinning faster. Earth rotated once around its axis on Wednesday, June 29, in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798 ... dwarf with a mass of 1.22 solar masses and a spin period of approximately 13.2 seconds ...

"If you go back to the solar nebula, the gas and dust ... the conditions that shaped Atlas in Saturn's ring system and those in the rotating mass of rocky material that eventually formed the ...