Our planet has made its closest approach to the sun for the year. Despite this, temperatures around Australia on this date ...

Earth will reach its closest point to the Sun, an astronomical event called Perihelion Day. This annual occurrence happens every January and offers a fascinatin ...

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

Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles.

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 ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

The Earth is tilted on its axis, meaning it does not spin exactly straight "up and down," but instead one pole or the other points more directly at the sun as the planet orbits. The seasons are ...

As our planet orbits the sun, the direction of the axis doesn't change. By Dec. 21-22, the Northern Hemisphere is leaning its furthest away from the sun's warming rays, which we call the winter ...