Temperature: Earth’s average temperature is 60° F (15.5° C). Escape velocity: To escape Earth’s gravity, you have to travel 25,000 miles (40,200 km) per hour.

Presently, the Earth's average global temperature is about 59 degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than much of the Phanerozoic era. However, human-induced climate change is driving temperature increases at ...

Furthest? Yes, that is correct! Earth and the sun reached this point at 3:55 p.m. on Thursday. At that point in its orbit, the Earth was 94.5 million miles away from the sun.

Palm trees in Alaska, crocodiles in Wyoming: Fossils show that Earth’s temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. Now a new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of ...

NASA said in a statement released Thursday that the exoplanet, called Kepler-1649c, is located 300 light-years from Earth, and is the most similar to our own home planet in size and estimated ...