An animation of an asteroid's close approach to Earth has garnered considerable interest in recent times, largely due to its ...

NOAA's CCOR-1 coronagraph captured the blast that showed the sun's raw power in action.

Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it passes between the Earth and the sun. Just be warned: It won't be easy to spot in the sun's glow, according to astronomers. The orbit Venus takes ...

The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

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Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...

(WKBN) – If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you will have to think again. While that may sound like common sense, ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...