Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

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

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion.

Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun But Around a 'Center of Mass,' Claim Researchers 'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth?. It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way ...

A massive solar tornado, big enough to swallow the Earth, was observed twirling across the surface of the "quiet" sun last week. Using a telescope made from second hand parts, including part of an ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observes the sun, was able to capture an image of the event, which the agency said peaked at around 5:49 p.m. ET June 17.

Called aphelion, the sun at that moment will be 94,502,939 miles (152,087,738 km) from our Earth (measured from center to center), or 3,096,946 miles (4,984,051 km) farther as compared to when the ...