Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

The main cause of our changing seasons is the Earth's axis ... has its solstices in reverse! So, as the Earth revolves in its ...

isn't quite aligned with the vertical axis perpendicular to Earth's orbit around the sun. That slight tilt has big implications for everything from seasons to glacier cycles. The magnitude of that ...

This axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the plane of Earth's orbit around the sun, giving us seasons. Whichever hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun experiences summer ...

The Earth’s tilt means we experience four seasons as we orbit the Sun. So, starting with winter in the northern hemisphere, the Earth moves round and the days get longer and warmer until it ...

Below, view how the seasons change with Earth's orbit around the Sun: Eleanor Lutz, who is currently a graphics editor at The New York Times, made the animation in 2019 using open data from NASA ...