Research published in the journal Nature Geoscience said Earth's core nearly stopped rotating around 2009, before turning in the opposite direction Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports ...

The Earth's magnetic field controls the direction and speed at which Earth's inner and outer cores spin, even though they move in opposite directions, new research suggests. Scientists have long ...

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite directions - eastward on gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and westward on ice ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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Where the Colorado River today is carving the Grand Canyon, there once flowed another river in the opposite direction, according to a new study comparing tiny grains of the mineral, zircon, in Utah ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...