The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

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

Despite Earth reaching its aphelion, the farthest point from the sun, the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing scorching heat.

By flying closer to the Sun than ever, Parker Solar Probe reveals the chaotic birthplace of solar wind and space storms, ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you ...

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