Temperature: Earth’s average temperature is 60° F (15.5° C). Escape velocity: To escape Earth’s gravity, you have to travel 25,000 miles (40,200 km) per hour.

The distance to the center of the Earth is 6,371 kilometers (3,958 mi), the crust is 35 kilometers (21 mi) thick, the mantle is 2855km (1774 mi) thick -- and get this: the deepest we have ever ...

(Kids game: Weather Word Search.) Overall, Earth's average global temperature is about 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.3 degrees Celsius) higher at aphelion than at perihelion, he said.

Despite its proximity to its star, Ross 128 b only absorbs about 1.38 times as much radiation as our planet, giving the Earth-sized world a hospitable equilibrium temperature in the range of -60 ...

Even so, Earth’s changing distance from the sun does affect our planet’s temperature but only by a little bit.

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Earth's orbital precession is known to have affected the timing of the ice ages, for example. The distance effect -- and its 22,000-year variation -- also may affect other weather systems on Earth.

The temperature in outer space is determined by the amount of sunlight in the area. (Image credit: ISS Crew Earth Observations Experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory/Johnson Space Center.) ...