Around the time of your romantic dinner, head outside and look to the southwest to spot the super brilliant planet in the night sky ...

How big is the ellipse that our planet travels in a year around the Sun? J.J. Müdespacher Mexico City, Mexico Earth's orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Here’s how it works. The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical body's orbit where it is nearest to the sun. Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun), the ...

While the apparent increase in collision probability for December 2032 may seem concerning, experts stress that the risk ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

The half of the Moon facing the Sun gets illuminated and the other half ... As the Moon continues to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its orbit it is ...

The half of the Moon facing the Sun gets illuminated and the other half ... As the Moon continues to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its orbit it is ...

ISRO's Aditya-L1 completes first halo orbit around Sun-Earth L1 point Bengaluru, Jul 2 (PTI) India's first solar mission Aditya-L1 spacecraft completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 ...