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Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...
Forbes

Earth’s Eccentric Orbit Likely Spurred Evolution’s Cambrian Explosion

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...
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Earth Doesn't Really Have Two Moons Until 2083, But It Does Have A Longterm Visitor In Orbit

Some planets in our solar system have an incredible amount of moons. Jupiter has 95, with names like Ganymede and Europa. Remarkably, though, Saturn has almost three times that number, including the ...
Forbes

It’s Aphelion Day, When Earth Is Farthest From The Sun — So Why The Heatwave?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is today at aphelion, the point in its orbit at which ...