Earth’s prevailing winds are fastest in the northern hemisphere winter, but slowest from June to August, so the summer months ...

Each year, as Earth completes a single orbit around the Sun, the Moon orbits our globe about 13 times. From our viewpoint, it’s easy to imagine the Moon tracing out the Sun’s path along the ...

On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

On average, Earth rotates once relative to distant stars, a sidereal day, in about 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds.

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

There are a total of three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest distance from Earth’s equator, ...

Lunar distance is an always-changing thing, with the moon tracing an elliptical orbit around the Earth. At its closest approach—or perigee—the moon is only 224,000 miles distant.

Earth has a tiny new companion in its journey around the sun — at least for now. The new "mini-moon" is an asteroid called 2020 CD3. It's about 1.9 to 3.5 metres in diameter, roughly between the ...