The slow rotation period of Venus (it takes 243 Earth days to complete one full rotation) and the orientation of its spin axis to its orbital plane (177°, so it spins in the direction opposite its ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Venus’ rotation has always been weird. While it completes an orbit ...

Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself. An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University ...

Venus, with its fiery surface and rapid atmospheric rotation, has always been a subject of fascination for scientists. Recent discoveries reveal that its extreme winds might be even more dramatic and ...

Time is out of joint on Venus. The planet’s thick air, which spins much faster than the solid globe, may push against the flanks of mountains and change Venus’ rotation rate. Computer simulations show ...

The rotation of the planet Venus is slowing down, according to recent data gathered by the European Space Agency's Venus Express satellite. Peering through the planet's dense atmosphere with infrared ...

CAN the rotation period of Venus be commensurate with its synodic period? If the rotation period is 243.16 days retrograde, the axis of Venus which points toward the Earth at one inferior conjunction ...

You wouldn’t expect a toy spinning top to be rotating at precisely the same rate every time you glance at it, but you probably would expect a planet to. Yet observations of Venus over the years have ...

Venus's days may be getting slightly shorter thanks to a bizarre mismatch in the rotations of its rocky body and its thick, toxic atmosphere. Venus is a lot like Earth, with a similar size and surface ...

Modern-day Venus is a hellish place, but that wasn't always the case. Studies have shown that billions of years ago it might have been just as habitable as Earth. So what happened? New research has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As bizarre as Venus appears today --- a hellish ...