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, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The earth’s journey around the Sun is not a perfect circle. Instead, our planet follows a slightly oval-shaped path called an ellipse, meaning our distance from the Sun changes ...

The year 2026 would begin with a full moon, also a supermoon, and Earth’s closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. It indicated that the Earth, moon, and sun would be very closely aligned, ...

This event, known as aphelion, happens once per year typically around two weeks after the summer solstice in June. Although the Earth’s distance from the Sun does not affect the seasons, aphelion does ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have discovered 2025 PN7, a small quasi-moon that mirrors Earth’s orbit around the Sun. (CREDIT: ESA) Earth has just ...

The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

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 ...