Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...
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Earth's '2nd moon' escapes our planet's orbit — will it ever return?
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 ...
As Earth says goodbye to 'mini-moon,' asteroid's possible lunar origin revealed
Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...
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How big is Earth’s orbit around the Sun?
Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...
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Solar maximum just knocked 3 satellites out of orbit. Here's why more may be on the way.
The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...
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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
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What Causes Seasons? Earth's Tilt and Orbit
The main cause of our changing seasons is the Earth's axis ... has its solstices in reverse! So, as the Earth revolves in its ...
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Earth isn't the only planet with seasons, but they can look wildly different on other worlds
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 ...
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Planet Earth, explained
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 ...
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Earth, Sun and Moon
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 ...
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Celebrate the winter solstice with this gorgeous animation that shows how the Earth changes with the seasons
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 ...