Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System ...

Projections suggest auroral activity could increase in 2025 as activity on the sun’s surface maintains a “solar maximum.” ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

In a groundbreaking first, the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest encounter with the Sun. So where ...

Saturn completes an orbit around the sun every 29.5 years. During that solar orbit, "the angle of the Saturn's rings relative to the sun varies by 26.7 degrees," NASA says. During that variation ...

As Earth completes yet another full orbit around the Sun, an encroaching storm is expected to bathe the planet in a glorious ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Its effects, as well as being more consequential for our society, are difficult to understand due to outstanding problems in ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...