Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Notes on the above data: Most of the satellites capture imagery in high resolution in grayscale (panchromatic) and lower resolution in each of the three primary colours and the images are combined to ...

The sun moves in such a predictable way across the sky that you might never suspect that its relationship with Earth is changing all the time. In fact, the average distance between Earth and the sun ...