What is perihelion? Here's why Earth is closer to the sun on January 3

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...
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NASA's most powerful telescope successfully reaches destination in orbit around the Sun

The James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination, almost a month after launch. Since lifting off from French Guiana on December 25, the telescope has unfurled its tennis court-size ...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space Weather

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...
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Locked in: NASA’s observatory reaches one-million-mile orbit to study Earth’s UV glow

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit, marking a major milestone for the mission. The ...
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Why Earth’s Orbit Around The Sun Isn’t What You Think

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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NASA confirms a new quasi-moon orbiting the Earth until 2083

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...