Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, crawls through a day that outlasts its year, and even changes its spin rate in ...

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Fundamental properties of the planet Venus, such as its internal mass distribution and variations in length of day, have remained unknown. We used Earth-based observations of radar speckles tied to ...

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Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other planets in the solar system, and astronomers aren’t sure why – but it may have been caused by the drag of an ancient moon in a backwards orbit. The ...