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Earth’s elliptical path around the Sun does more than keep the planet in a stable orbit. Because that path is not a perfect circle, the distance between Earth and the Sun changes throughout the year, ...

Each year, Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in early January, a moment called perihelion. In 2026, this occurred on January 3 at 12:15 p.m. EST, when Earth was about 91.4 million miles from ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...