Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

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, ...

The standard day on Earth consists of 24 hours, which is 1,440 minutes and 86,400 seconds. However, shorter days are ahead in the next few weeks. The rotation of the Earth changes due to several ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're extremely hard to see. In the space shared by the orbit of Venus, hundreds ...

A new planetary system was discovered about 4,000 light-years away from our own. The findings may provide answers as to what will happen to Earth when the sun finally burns out. In the newfound system ...