An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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 ...

Earth rotates on an axis, which is not perpendicular to Earth’s orbit. During winter, the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun’s rays. As the Earth travels around the Sun, the tilt gradually ...

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 ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by ...

You see, the sun's tremendous gravity pulls the Earth right toward it. Meanwhile, the planet is trying to whiz away in this direction. This tug of war keeps us in orbit. But if the Earth slows ...

So why has the sun been rising later than it did on Dec. 21? Like much of our day and night cycles, the answer lies in Earth's rotation and orbit. Yes, the sun has risen later than it did Dec.

Right now you're hurtling around the Sun at a hundred thousand kilometres an hour. Join Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski as they explore the relationship between the Earth's orbit and the weather ...

Galactic Energy, a private rocket maker based in Beijing, successfully launched a mission Monday afternoon, deploying five ...