Naturally, the same goes for the sunset. Since the winter solstice, the sun has been setting progressively later at a faster ...

Late on March 13 and on into the early hours of March 14 the moon will turn a spooky red color in the skies above the U.S.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

in our distance from the sun, but in the tilt of Earth’s axis ... million miles/152 million kilometers from the sun. Earth’s elliptical orbit causes slight variations in solar energy, with ...

The Sun rises in Midland, Michigan, shortly after 8a.m. on Jan. 13, 2017. Christian Collins/Flickr, CC BY-SA ...

The company will also look at making design additions to its BlueBird satellites to prevent them from reflecting too much ...

How does the Earth’s orbit influence our daylight and temperatures ... Second, its axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees relative to its path around the Sun. As a result, light falls directly ...

The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...

How does the Earth’s orbit influence our daylight and temperatures ... There are two other important factors: First, the Earth is round, although it’s not a perfect sphere. Second, its axis is tilted ...

This discrepancy is due to the Earth's tilt and the fact that our planet does not orbit the sun in a perfect circle or at the same speed all year. "Because we're in this elliptical orbit ...