The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

Earth moves 2 million miles closer to the sun from summer to winter, yet temperatures drop 40+ degrees. The answer lies in Earth's tilt.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...