As the sun rises on June 21, it marks the arrival of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the beginning of National Indigenous Peoples Day. This day of celebration honours the ...

ESA has now released the first pictures of the sun’s south pole, taken between March, when the spacecraft was orbiting at an angle 15 degrees below the ecliptic plane, and today, when it reached ...

That means, if you could stand on its surface, you’d see the sun rise in the west and set in the east. This kind of backward rotation is called “retrograde rotation.” ...

The eta Aquariid meteor shower is reaching its peak, so check for clear weather and get out before the sun rises for a chance to see pieces of Halley's comet flash through the sky. Each year, from ...

Each passing day, the sun rises and sets on a subtly different point on the horizon. This gradual creep gives rise to the Manhattanhenge phenomenon — a solar spectacle that sees the setting sun ...