But the days are indeed getting longer because, as you might guess, the sun has also been setting later. While it rose at ...
Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...
At 7:28 this morning, the earth reached the point at which it is closest to the sun in its orbit, known as the perihelion.
Kolkata: This winter, stargazers in Kolkata are in for a celestial treat as Mars makes its closest approach to Earth and reaches opposition with the S.
When one of the poles points more toward the Sun than the other pole, that half of the planet gets more sunlight than the other half, and it’s summer in that hemisphere. When that pole tilts away from ...
The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...
The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...
The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...