Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles. This location is known as perihelion. From the ground, three million miles ...

NASA has snapped photos and videos of the two huge asteroids that passed by our planet a few weeks ago. The two asteroids, ...

Scientists at NASA collected radar images as two asteroids made recent close passes of Earth, and the data revealed that one ...

Since the Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, there is more than a 3-million-mile difference between the distance at aphelion and perihelion. Perihelion is the closest point in the Earth's ...

USA TODAY has previously debunked other false flat Earth claims, including that an image of Chicago skyline taken in Indiana ...

Image A visualization of the orbit of (415029) 2011 UL21, a near-Earth object that completes 11 revolutions around the sun in almost the exact same amount of time in which Earth completes 34 ...

A giant 'planet killer' asteroid is set to make a 'very close' approach to Earth, which can trigger a dramatic climate change should it impact our planet. The space rock, 2011 UL21, is about the ...

An image of post-eruptive loops in the wake of a solar flare, taken by the TRACE satellite in the year 2000. A sunspot is moving into the right position to send a proton storm toward Earth.

Temperatures can reach over 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) during summer, according to NASA's Earth Observatory ... the salt flats in this real-color image lay in canyons up to ...

It reaches perihelion–or the closest distance to the sun–in January, when it is about 3 million miles closer. There is no real effect on Earth’s climate, as our seasons are dictated by the ...

(Representative image) An asteroid likely measuring up to the size of an 88-ft airplane safely passed Earth on June 23. The alert on the asteroid was issued by NASA. In its warning, NASA's Jet ...

Or that it may once have been purple? Here are 50 facts about Earth. Gravity pushes extra masses of water and earth into a bulge, or "spare tire" around our planet. At the equator, the ...