We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of the earth viewed from space, with the sun in the background. Although we can't feel Earth spinning, the ...

Venus rotates clockwise, opposite most planets, a phenomenon called retrograde rotation. A day on Venus is longer than its year, and the sun rises in the west. Scientists believe a collision or ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, ...

To make a planet reverse its path around the sun, something massive would have to force it into an altered orbit through its gravity. Astronomers have found planets around other stars with retrograde ...