So, is Earth hotter in January than in July? That's logical, but false. The geography of the Southern Hemisphere cancels out the variations in Earth’s distance from the sun.

The heat comes at a time when our planet is millions of miles farther from the sun than it is in January. In fact, we're the farthest from the sun on July 6 than we'll be on any day for the next year.

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

The Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not a perfect circle. It’s actually an ellipse, so sometimes we’re closer to the Sun, and sometimes farther away. Various factors change the exact date ...

The exact difference in the distance between Earth's closest and farthest points from the sun is 3,104,641 miles (4 996 435 km), or 3.28 percent, which makes a difference in radiant heat received ...

On Friday, Earth will swing toward the outermost point in its orbit, known as aphelion. You, me and everyone on the planet will be 3 million miles farther from the sun than when we are closest to it.

The earth is at it's farthest point from the sun, but find out why that has nothing to do with the ongoing heat wave in the U.S.

At that moment, the distance between the Earth and sun will be 94,510,886 miles (152,100,527 kilometers) as measured from center to center. You may like ...

Despite the heat wave in the American West, the Earth reaches aphelion—94,508,959 miles from the sun—on Friday.

Good morning! Top o’ the orbit to you! At 8:06 P.M. UTC (4:06 P.M. EDT) on July 6, 2023, Earth will reach the point in its orbit when it’s farthest from the sun. In a sense, it’s like our ...

This article was originally published with the title “Form and Heat of the Earth—North West Passage” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 19 (January 1853), p. 147 doi:10.1038 ...