Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

At its perihelion, the Earth will be just 91.5 million miles from the sun, compared to its further point (called the aphelion, which will happen on July 5 this year) when it is 94.5 million miles ...

New research suggests that the Earth, the sun, and the solar system could be traveling through a highly magnetized tunnel in space. If correct, the theory could explain the appearance in the sky ...

Earth is seen from the International Space Station. ... The satellite will be used to study the sun’s outer atmosphere and will fly free from the shuttle for two days.

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. ... You'll probably be wrong because we never see the Earth and moon together. The answer is 2 ...

The Sun Space photo of the week: Pink 'raindrops' on the sun captured in greatest detail ever. ... No type of aurora like it had ever been seen from Earth before.

It’s the iconic “Earthrise” photo. Of course, this isn’t one of 2022’s images of Earth from space that I’m showcasing below. But I thought I should start with it — for context.

A massive solar tornado, big enough to swallow the Earth, was observed twirling across the surface of the "quiet" sun last week. Using a telescope made from second hand parts, including part of an old ...

His team found that the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere work together like giant filters. They get rid of weak space rocks long before those rocks ever hit the ground.