During a mission in orbit, a simple spinning object began flipping over and over — even though no force was acting on it. The behavior was so strange that it was kept secret for years, raising ...

There are countless objects spinning around in space, but this is an astronomical first! Dan Smith shows how one small comet ...

If you take a video of a spinning wheel, you’ll probably notice that the spokes appear to turn more slowly than the wheel is actually rotating, and sometimes in the wrong direction. This is caused ...