Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Although we can't feel Earth spinning, the daily sunrise and sunset are reminders that our planet is in constant motion. But do we know which way Earth is spinning? And is it the same direction as ...

as do all the other planets and more than a million asteroids and dwarf planets. Most are spinning in the same direction, too. Jupiter and Saturn spin quite a bit faster than Earth, taking only ...

Caption (a) shows how the "real" Earth orbits the Sun, with a constant angle of the tilt of the spinning axis, giving the familiar four seasons per year. (b) shows how the planet of the Game of ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours and constitutes a day. A few milliseconds added to that 24-hour period could ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

So there's still lots to learn about the biggest planet in the solar system and its four main moons. Jupiter is the fastest-spinning planet in the solar system, taking just 10 hours to complete a ...

The climate crisis has gone so far that it's altering the shape and spin of our planet, and changing our experience of time itself, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on ...