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 ...

a new theory now suggests that the cause could be a 2-50 Jupiter-mass object passing through the Solar System. To start with, the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas and dust around the ...

but even so, the pieces would be longer than most things in the Solar System, and our analysis shows that it is rotating fast enough that they should not stay together. "One of our team wondered ...

total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean ... It came against a long-term background of a gradual slowing of Earth’s rotation, caused by the the ebb and flow of tides, the flow ...