Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new ...

Dead satellites and drift-prone GPS coordinates aren’t your phone’s fault — they’re side effects of something unprecedented happening to our planet. Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation at the ...

New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying ...

Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

Unlike the telluric planets, the central part of the giant planets is embedded within a large gaseous envelope subject to strong zonal winds, which prevents one from measuring directly its rotation ...

The planet CoRoT-2 b has puzzled astronomers for nearly a decade, but new data may have solved its mystery New research led by a scientist at IPAC-a ...

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Dead satellites and drift-prone GPS coordinates aren’t your phone’s fault - they’re side effects of something unprecedented happening to our planet. Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation at the ...