Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion. By Katrina Miller This article was ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

Despite Earth reaching its aphelion, the farthest point from the sun, the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing scorching heat.

The summer solstice is an annual event which takes place all over the world, which used to mark the beginning of summer and the changing of the seasons. Modern meteorologists now typically use ...

The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, which have long been suspected to ...

Here’s what to know about the Earth’s orbit. Solstices are when days and nights are at their most extreme As the Earth travels around ... sun. That means the sun’s warmth and light fall unequally on ...

Could a passing star hit Earth some day? ... The risk of instability for the solar system’s first planet would increase by between around 50 and 80 percent. ... Earth orbit Sun Star.