New research led by the Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University has revealed that the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere is maintained near the equator by atmospheric tidal waves that have formed ...
Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Mars is rotating more quickly than it ...
This image illustrates how a star illuminates and heats the day side of a synchronously rotating planet, and the phenomena of transit and occultation (eclipse). The bottom of the figure shows the ...
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The James Webb telescope just solved a decades-old Saturn mystery — the planet’s rotation rate was never actually coming from the planet at all
For more than 40 years, planetary scientists believed they knew how long a day on Saturn lasted. They were listening to the wrong clock. A study published in May 2026 in the Journal of Geophysical ...
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