The New Year would begin with our planet being closest to the sun, raising queries about the cold weather and no heat despite ...

Every January, Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun, known as perihelion. Yet, it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...

The Northern Hemisphere is tilting away from the sun and will reach the point of maximum tilt in the coming week meaning the ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these ...

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 ...

The idea that Mars could affect Earth’s climate sounds dramatic, since climate change is usually linked to cars, factories, ...

NASA's astronomers have recently discovered a ‘quasi-moon' orbiting within Earth's orbital neighbourhood. This quasi-moon spotted in 2025 is an asteroid and not the first celestial object to be ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...

Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun in early January, a phenomenon known as perihelion. Despite this proximity, the ...