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

Tuesday, July 22, is expected to be the second of three days in 2025 where more than a millisecond could be shaved off the ...

July 22 is one of the shortest days in history due to Earth spinning faster. The shortest day in history is coming up next ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called aphelion. Our planet’s orbit is very close to a circle, but it is not a ...

Earth's orbit around the Sun also plays a role in the changing of seasons. The orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an elliptical shape. While this elliptical orbit does affect the distance ...

Earth’s seasons result from a variety of factors, including orbit and axial tilt. When a planet has an obliquity of more than 54 degrees, that planet's equator grows icy and the pole becomes warm .

Earth on Tuesday made its closest approach to the sun, an annual celestial event that happens to occur at the start of the new year. The planet follows an elliptical orbit around the sun, rather ...

NASA launches probe on historic mission to study the sun 02:38. On January 2, 2021, Earth is closer to the sun in its elliptical orbit than on any other day of the year, marking an annual event ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles (940 million km). Skip to content.

Throughout my research, I’ve found that Earth’s regular pattern of seasons is unique. The rotational axis that Earth spins on, along the North and South poles, isn’t quite aligned with the vertical ...