Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Scientists studying the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan have discovered a mysterious, gyroscopic motion they can't quite explain.

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has always fascinated scientists with its thick, hazy atmosphere—the only one like it on any ...

Regular readers of my column certainly know how to use the Big Dipper to find the North Star (aka Polaris). Some folks believe Polaris is important ...

The Coriolis effect, caused by Earth's rotation, deflects winds and currents, shaping global weather patterns, storm paths, ...

The pilot's story pursued the Enterprise crew involuntarily transporting to 20th-century Earth and, along the way, encountering Gary Seven and his associate Roberta—the types of characters to ...

They then oriented the cylinder in a north-south direction set at a 57° angle ... suggesting that it was due to the energy from the Earth's rotation. The researchers note that they accounted ...

Another possible explanation is related to the Earth's rotation around the center of the Milky Way. This motion could create a Doppler effect, making galaxies rotating in the opposite direction appear ...

“The main finding of the study is that the vast majority of the galaxies in the universe, as seen from Earth, rotate in the same direction,” explained Lior Shamir, an astronomer at Kansas ...