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

K2-18b first hit their radars in 2015, when the exoplanet was spotted using the Kepler Space Telescope. Since then, they continue to understand more about the distant planet, including how far K2 ...

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 ...

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

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, ... Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. ... hotter days of summer even though Earth is farther away.

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...

The distance at apogee is so great, the solar system's seven other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) could fit between Earth and the moon, astronomer Phil Plait ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...