Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

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WASHINGTON — The summer solstice, the official start of summer, is on Friday, June 20. For those north of the equator, the solstice marks the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Earth ...

Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for sharing his heliocentric view.

As the Earth does one orbit around the sun, so do the quasi-satellites. So they seem to be always around, even though they are not bound. Not being bound doesn’t mean that they do not feel the tug of ...

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 ...