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

The angle of the sun is a product of the tilt of the Earth, which is also the driver of the seasons. When you combine the 23.5° tilt of the planet with its revolution around the sun, you get a ...

This is known as an "analemma", and of course is created by the Earth and Sun's relative motion. But it also has a lot to do with how we measure and keep time.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...