Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

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Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere will be shorter this year than last year by about 15 minutes, according to Timeanddate.com.

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Today, June 26, 2025, the moon is 1 days old and is in the New Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 1% illuminated.

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

Summer is here, and Mercury goes retrograde from July 17 until August 11 — the retrograde begins after the full moon lunar ...

Friday is the longest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical summer.

There's a new interstellar object moving through our solar system and it's called 3I/ATLAS, according to NASA.

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles.

As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle relative to the sun. For most of the year, the Earth’s axis is tilted either toward or away from the sun.