Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds Earth-sun distance helps drive the Pacific cold tongue, a key player in El Niño and global weather. (CREDIT: Wikimedia ...

Earth reaches aphelion, its farthest point from the Sun, at 11 p.m. IST today. Here's why the event won't cool India or ...

For billions of years, the Sun’s gravitational has kept Earth’s orbit on a steady and reliable path. But this rogue star has ...

Earth will reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, a yearly astronomical event known as aphelion. At around 152.1 million kilometres from the Sun, the planet will be about 5 million ...

While the Sun might have seemed a little closer during this weeks record setting temperatures, the opposite is actually true. As temps reached 103º on Friday, crushing the previous record by 5º, Earth ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

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 ...