On July 9 — and two other upcoming dates — the moon will be at its maximum distance from the equator, Timeanddate.com notes.

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result ...

Earth makes its closest annual approach of the sun about two weeks after the December solstice, during the Northern Hemisphere's winter. Earth is farthest from the sun about two weeks after the ...

It’s the nation’s darkest day and will soon be our longest night but hundreds shrugged off the cold to mark the solstice.

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America, and ...