Earth’s elliptical path around the Sun does more than keep the planet in a stable orbit. Because that path is not a perfect circle, the distance between Earth and the Sun changes throughout the year, ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...

The sun shines above the Earth’s horizon. Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs annually in early January. NASA At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone ...

Summer this year in the Northern Hemisphere summer will be shorter — by exactly 15 minutes — than it was in 2024 because, according to Timeanddate.com, of the ever-changing shape of Earth’s orbit ...