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 ...

Earth reaches perihelion this morning at 8 A.M. EST, when our planet’s not-quite-circular orbit brings us to our closest point to the Sun for the year. On this day, we are just 91.4 million ...

A Nasa spacecraft is in “good health” after going closer to the Sun than anything ever has, the space agency has said. The ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

At 6:53 a.m. ET, the spacecraft is set to fly the closest to the sun of any human-made object ... "with the billions and billions of other planets that may or may not be like our own planets ...

This January, the night sky offers a stunning display featuring the Quadrantid meteor shower and a rare alignment of four bright planets visible in a single view. Witness Mars at opposition, shining ...

The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface during humanity’s closest ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to ... it has circled gradually closer to the sun – flying past Venus in order to use the planet’s gravity to move it into a tighter ...