Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

At that time, Earth was 91,405,992 miles (147,103,686 kilometers) away from the sun. The difference in Earth's distance from the sun at perihelion and aphelion is about 3 million miles (5 million km).

Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s day time, when it’s facing away from the Sun that's night time. One spin of the Earth is how we measure one ...

It is difficult to imagine the difference in size between the Sun and Earth, or the distance between them ... That is nearly half a mile away! Imagine trying to throw a pebble to hit your bit ...

Earth zooms through its orbit at an average velocity of 18.5 miles a second. During this circuit, our planet is an average of 93 million miles away from the sun, a distance that takes light about ...