In a natural irony, the northern hemisphere's hottest season occurs when Earth is farthest from the sun. On July 5 at 5:27 p.m. Central Daylight Time, the planet will stand 94,510,886 miles ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Extreme heat has been making news in the United States, with new record high heat indexes in Florida this week. In Texas, an all-time record was set for energy demand last week as ...

While it may seem odd that the Sun is at its farthest during the summer, that distance has relatively little impact on temperatures. Each year, about two weeks after the Summer Solstice, the Sun is at ...

PLANET EARTH (WHTM) — Perihelion Day is the date when the Earth makes its closest approach to the sun. The sun is as large in the sky as it’s going to be. The orbit of any planet (not just the Earth) ...

Faculty Fellow at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. “We make our closest approach to the Sun (147.5 million km) in January, that’s called perihelion, and we’re farthest from the Sun (152.6 ...

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If you are a Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter user, you probably have seen or received this message several times: “From tomorrow till August 22 this year, it will be colder than previous years. They ...