Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

when part of the Earth faces away from the Sun it is in darkness. This is night. Because the Earth is always slowly spinning, everywhere on Earth turns in and out of the light from the Sun, ...

Earth is messy. Can’t we just send ... Part of the challenge is that our junk can’t go just anywhere, ... Earth faces destruction from an enormous ball of its own garbage.

Facts about our Sun, including its distance from Earth, what the Sun is made of, and how long it would take to drive there (hint: a long time!).

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

Dark half of moon faces Earth during solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is, by definition, when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, contrary to the video's claim.It's exactly what ...

A massive solar flare erupted from the sun over the weekend, causing radio blackouts on Earth – and more could be on the horizon. The sun emitted the solar flare on Saturday, peaking around 10: ...

But the days are indeed getting longer because, as you might guess, the sun has also been setting later.While it rose at 8:06 a.m. on Sunday, four minutes later than on the solstice, the sun set ...

The sun spit out the largest solar flare in more than a decade on Tuesday, though after a week of being pummeled by plasma, the Earth could be in the clear this time.