Minnesota Starwatch is a service of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, located in the Tate Laboratory of Physics and ...

Spring arrives with the equinox at 4:01 p.m. on the 20th. At that moment, the sun moves into the northern sky, and Earth will ...

Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the sun, on July 6, when we’ll be 94.5 million miles from our parent star. But while giving the sun a wide berth, Earth cozies up to Mars in ...