When the moon is positioned farther from Earth's equator and closer to the poles, its pull on the planet becomes weaker. With ...

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

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, starting Wednesday, July 9.

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

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

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.

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

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 ...

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

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

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...