The 28 fastest days on record (since 1960) all occurred in 2020, with our planet completing its revolutions milliseconds quicker than average.
Don’t worry -- this doesn’t mean that we’re all going to fly off the planet like when you spin your kids around on a merry-go-round...
What? In the cold of winter? Yep. At 7:51 AM on Saturday, January 2, the Earth will be only 91,399,453 miles away from the sun -- which is roughly three million miles closer than it will be at its furthest point in July. Earth is closest to the sun every year in early January...