Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that ...

Mars' gravity has a surprisingly large influence on Earth, affecting our planet's tilt and orbit and thereby contributing to climate cycles lasting hundreds of thousands to millions of years, new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun shines above the Earth’s horizon. Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs annually in early January ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have discovered 2025 PN7, a small quasi-moon that mirrors Earth’s orbit around the Sun. (CREDIT: ESA) Earth has just ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in 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 ...

For decades, climate science has focused on what happens on Earth and in our atmosphere, but new research suggests our planet’s long term rhythms are also being nudged by a neighbor. Scientists now ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...