Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...

For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion.

While trivia nights aren’t really my thing, I like to think I know a little about a lot. And, throw a weather-related ...

Earth is the only place in the universe scientists known to have organics form of life inside. Now, another planet might be ...

The next one will be January 3, 2026. 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 miles).

The sun is really low now. Even at noon, it's only 25 degrees above the horizon. The sun is getting higher each day, but the weather is still getting colder. Now the Earth itself has cooled off. It's ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting ...

The difference in distance is equivalent to 3.277 percent, which makes the sun appear 6.55 percent dimmer now than in January; A change of only one part in 30.