Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its ...

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun (perihelion), ...

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

On Thursday, Earth will be over 94.5 million miles away from the sun. On average the planet sits at 93 million miles away, according to Earthsky.com.

Earth is at its farthest point from the sun on July 3. So why are temperatures so high across the U.S.?

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

The Parker Solar Probe snapped images of the Sun from a distance of 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the surface at the end of last year.

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...