Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

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

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 ...

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close ...

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

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

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

Meteorological analyst Jean Suriel reported that this Thursday, July 3, the Earth reached its farthest point from the Sun in ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an extraordinary cosmic mystery, a giant planet that seems to be hurtling toward a fiery ...