Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

How planets revolve does not facilitate as taught in school classrooms; it focuses on a point that is constantly moving.

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged an exoplanet. I know what you’re thinking: “JWST ...