Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...
Scientific American

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Study finds Earth’s orbit distance slightly shifts season length

Earth’s elliptical path around the Sun does more than keep the planet in a stable orbit. Because that path is not a perfect ...
National Geographic news

What is perihelion? Here's what happens when Earth is nearest to the sun

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...
The New York Times

Something Very Tiny Is Following Earth Around the Sun

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...