Earth rotates on an axis, which is not perpendicular to Earth’s orbit. During winter, the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun’s rays. As the Earth travels around the Sun, the tilt gradually ...

Narrator: Earth zooms around the sun at 110,000 ... sparking wildfires and killing crops. UV radiation from the sun is so strong, we'd get severe sunburn after just 15 minutes outdoors.

That's because the Earth is orbiting the sun, which is orbiting ... through the cosmic wind of radiation released during the Big Bang. A simple animation created by planetary scientist James ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...