In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Nearby will be the Bull's brightest star, orange Aldebaran, fairly conspicuous in its own right, yet still shining only a ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

On July 3, 2025, at 3:54 pm ET, the Earth will officially reach its furthest point from the Sun for this year. This is called ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

Have you ever wondered how fast the Earth moves in the vastness of the Universe?Embark on a journey to uncover the incredible ...

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 ...