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 ...

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 ...

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.

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...

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 ...