Have you ever wondered why everything in the Universe seems to rotate in a counterclockwise direction? From the spinning of ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

A stronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 light-years from Earth. The planet is huge; the star is tiny, a red dwarf ...

Perhaps the most remarkable peculiarity is that the outer planets possess almost all the “angular momentum” (energy of rotation) in the system.

Angular momentum puts planets in a spin Earth and our neighbouring planets have been spinning for about 4.5 billion years now, but the push behind their spin is as old as the universe itself.

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

The solar system’s angular momentum consists of the contributions of the Sun and all the planets, asteroids, comets, etc., orbiting it.

Angular momentum can be roughly defined as the amount of rotation in a system. In the solar system the planets have about 98% of the angular momentum, but only one-seventh of 1% of the solar ...

The interactions between particles in an accretion disk may help to explain why the inner solar system spins more slowly than expected.

The angular momentum of this system has a constant value, so this decrease in the moment of inertia means that the planet has to move faster. Here’s a model of that imaginary rotating planet ...