This is an interesting question, and the answer tells us something important about how planets form, as astronomers believe whether a planet travels clockwise or counterclockwise around its star is ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...

Sixty percent of the oldest known galaxies seem to be rotating clockwise an asymmetry so extreme that one scientist described “any person looking at the image can see it.” The result, based on 263 ...

Almost all tornadoes that develop in the Northern Hemisphere will have winds that spin counterclockwise—or cyclonically—and follow a typical northeastward track. But sometimes these dangerous storms ...