According to the National Weather Service, the summer solstice will occur on Friday at 10:42 p.m. Eastern time (it will be ...

For those in the northern latitudes, above cities like New York and London, the planet closest to the sun, Mercury, will be near the horizon and may be washed out by the glare of dawn. In these ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

On Earth, depending on where you are, the analemma can be at different angles, though it always traces out this figure-of-eight pattern. But on other planets, with their own orbits and mean solar ...

Each day, around 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of ancient debris dating back to the creation of our solar system collide with ...

Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 with the summer solstice, the day with the greatest amount of ...

But in the 16th century, German mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus upended that theory by providing strong evidence that Earth and the other planets travel around the sun.

One day, the sun will die — but some planets in our ... a young star system on the verge of birthing its first giant planets.

Summer gets its official start in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the summer solstice. The sun will trace its ...

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, and can contain as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.