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

The Parker Solar Probe, traveling at 430,000 mph, reaches 3.8 million miles from the Sun. Scientists now wait for a signal ...

Earth's rotation on its axis creates the illusion of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. This rotation, coupled with Earth's orbit around the sun and its axial tilt, dictates our ...

The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go around Earth in a low orbit. In early November, three tiny Australian ...

Launched into space in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is increasingly tightening its orbit around the Sun. The most significant ...

Though the winter solstice brings the shortest day of the year, it also signals the gradual return of light to the Northern Hemisphere.

This asteroid, named 2024 XA1, is only the 11th object we have ever managed to detect before it entered our planet's atmosphere.

5, 2024 the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission sent two spacecraft into orbit around Earth. By aligning the probes, researchers will create 6-hour-long mini eclipses, allowing the sun's ...

Thomas Zurbuchen was the head of science at NASA from 2016 to 2022.

ESA has launched three other Proba missions thus far, with one currently observing the Sun. Proba-2 launched in 2009, and was ...