Discover the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise. Learn why this 'rebel' planet spins backwards, how a collision changed its history, and why its days are longer than its years.

The James Webb space telescope looks further back in the universe than any other instrument. Now a baffling puzzle has been discovered in the data. Among the particularly distant galaxies explored by ...

As bizarre as Venus appears today --- a hellish cloud-cloaked world of extraordinary surface pressures and surface temperatures not fit for man or beast --- it is also one of only two full-sized ...

Just as the Earth, Moon, and Sun rotate, galaxies also rotate, and there are two directions: clockwise and counterclockwise. If the universe were completely random, the proportion of galaxies rotating ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We've all likely seen at least one tornado in our lifetime, whether it be via a video or in person. One thing the majority of those tornadoes have in common? The direction in which they ...

It’s all relative. For the most part, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to which way galaxies are spinning. Galaxies’ spins seem to be related only when the galaxies are very close neighbors.