Therefore, astronomers might expect that all of the planets in the solar system would spin in the same direction as the sun. "To look at the direction of the rotation, we always compare it to a ...

Photograph by Garcia Julien, Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and its iron-nickel core. This teardrop-shaped field shields ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...