Essential facts about the Earth, including its size, distance from the Sun, what's on the surface, and escape velocity. ... Temperature: Earth’s average temperature is 60° F (15.5° C).

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s ...

Overall, Earth's average global temperature is about 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.3 degrees Celsius) ... So if the Earth-sun distance isn't responsible for the current heat wave, what is?

The temperature and extent of the cold tongue changes with the seasons, but new climate simulations show that the annual change in Earth’s distance from the sun also affects the cold tongue ...

The average distance between Earth and the sun, what astronomers call an astronomical unit, is defined as 149,597,870.7 km. So this time we’ll be a little bit more than 1.5 percent farther out ...

Earth-sun distance dramatically alters seasons in the equatorial Pacific in a 22,000-year cycle An unrecognized effect boosts or diminishes the Pacific cold tongue, likely impacting El Niño/La ...

Due to the super-Earth's distance from its parent star, it could be in a conservative "habitable zone" and harbor the right temperature for liquid water to form on its surface, which is essential ...

At 40 light-years from Earth, Gliese 12 b is about the same distance as the TRAPPIST-1 system. This is made up of seven planets, all roughly in Earth's size range and likely rocky, orbiting a red ...