Venus, often called Earth's "sister planet," has long been a mystery, shrouded in dense clouds and extreme temperatures. The Akatsuki probe, launched by Japan’s space agency JAXA, has been on a ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

A day is defined as the time it takes a planet to make one full rotation on its axis. A year is the time it takes a planet to orbit around the sun. Of course on Earth we know a day is 24 hours and ...

According to the London-based observatory, Royal Museums Greenwich: It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun.

That’s 243 Earth days to rotate once — the longest rotation of any planet in the Solar System — and only 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit of the Sun.