
How fast is the planet Earth through space? | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | Jun, 2025
The earth revolves on its axis and revolves around the sun, which in turn orbit around the galactic center at speeds of hundreds of km/s. In our neighborhood, the speed of the sun and the other stars around the galactic center has an uncertainty of about about ~ 10%, or ~ 20 km/s, which is…