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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is today at aphelion, the point in its orbit at which ...

Earth is not a still point in space, but a planet hurtling through the cosmos at incredible speeds. This video breaks down the complex layers of our motion: the 66,000 mph orbit around the sun, the ...

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 ...

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth ...

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Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Sunsets will start getting later before the winter solstice — but mornings keep getting darker. Here’s the surprising science ...

Simulation results show that Mars, despite its similar size to Earth, has a considerable influence on the Milankovitch cycles ...

In the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new generation of space telescopes could be our best defense against potential disaster. When you purchase ...