Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an inferior conjunction.

and the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun -- interact to drive ice age cycles over the past 900,000 years. Barker said that without the Industrial Revolution, assuming fossil fuels had never ...

Astronomical seasons are based on the Earth’s position with respect to the Sun, as the planet makes its annual revolution around our star. The Earth is tilted approximately 23.5 degrees off a ...

Mysterious Shadows Revealed How Earth Is Connected to The Sun, Stuns Scientists A study of surprising findings into how the Earth is magnetically connected with the Sun, reported by MIT News, may ...

Earth will be hosting a "mini-moon" starting this weekend. Also sometimes called a "second moon," the small asteroid will ...

The nodes gradually rotate around the Earth, and they complete a full revolution in 6793 days, which is approximately 18.6 years. An eclipse can only occur when the Moon is in a node and the Sun ...