The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...

The Fall Equinox marks the official start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, representing a key shift in Earth’s relationship with the Sun. While it is often linked to equal day and night, the ...

Recently, the results of a 250-day experiment to refine a particular motion of our planet were published in the journal ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

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. Around January 2 or 3, ...

Gaia mission were used to create this animation of the motion of constellation stars. The "apparent shift caused by Earth’s ...

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that most of the solar system's inner rocky planets once orbited the sun in ...