Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

We call it the rotation axis. For the Earth, the rotation ... Saturn’s spin is a little bit tilted, so we get to see changing views of its rings over time.

In Earth's early days ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...

4.5 billion years ago, after colliding with the protoplanet Theia, the Earth's axis eventually settled into a 23.5 degree tilt. But what if Earth had flipped by 90 degrees? How would our seasons ...

For the Earth, the rotation axis points toward a bright star ... Most scientists now think its spin has been reversed over time by tidal forces involving the Sun and Venus’ thick atmosphere.

For the Earth, the rotation axis points toward a bright star ... Most scientists now think its spin has been reversed over time by tidal forces involving the Sun and Venus’ thick atmosphere. All that ...

New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...

and it's still spinning faster. While Earth is, on average, pretty reliable and takes 86,400 seconds to rotate around its axis, this is not perfect. ”When highly accurate atomic clocks were ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and ...

A "dead star" neutron star has been spotted spinning 716 times a second, astonishing astronomers who say it is the joint ...