The Three Gorges Dam, China's colossal hydroelectric marvel, stands as a testament to human engineering prowess. This massive ...

This monumental structure has sparked debate over whether its massive water reservoir could slow the Earth's rotation.

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

A screenshot of James’s animation “Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed & axial tilt in distance order from Sun”. Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

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 ...

Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees relative to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun, which helps give Mars seasons similar to those on Earth. Whichever hemisphere is ...

The science of these objects becomes more apparent when we consider planetary rotation. For this reason, we use shorter sub-exposures so as not to capture blur as each planet rotates. 'De-rotation ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

Early on in its history, astronomers believe that it was impacted by a large, Earth-size impactor, and this caused the planet to tip over on its side. So now its rotation axis is pointed almost in ...

This makes it possible to detect planets as small as the Earth orbiting around small ... which they attributed to either the star’s rotation or to events at its surface or in the surrounding ...

nomena are very variable, and are indistinct because of the feeble illumination which the planet receives from the sun. From them, however, Sir William Herschel computed the period of rotation at ...