The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

The Oregon Coast’s famed king tides will return for the third and final time this season. Here's when and how to see them.

Naturally, the same goes for the sunset. Since the winter solstice, the sun has been setting progressively later at a faster ...

Now that the Winter Solstice is behind us, our days continue to slowly get longer into January. Daylight will grow until the Summer Solstice in late June.

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 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 ...

Winter’s season has pounced upon us, reminding us of who is in charge of the weather. Mother Nature has transformed the ...

Friday evening will be mostly cloudy as snow showers taper off. It will also be blustery. Later in the night, temperatures ...

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 first quarter moon on January 6. The waxing gibbous moon passes just north of Jupiter in the northeast. The big action is ...