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.

Earth will reach its closest point to the Sun, known as Perihelion Day. This occurs every year in early January, and though ...

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 climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...

At its closest approach, the probe was 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from our star's surface. That might not sound that ...

Keep your eyes on the sky this upcoming year for a chance to spot breathtaking meteor showers, a special view of Saturn and a ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...