The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

When we see the Sun moving across the sky during the day it’s because the Earth is spinning, not the Sun. Let’s put a marker on Scotland. When this part of the Earth is facing the Sun it’s ...

though since Earth moves around the sun at about 66,600 mph.) To illustrate what's going on during an equinox, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation (below) last year.

i.e. it’s very rare for the solar system’s centre of mass to align with the Sun’s centre." The planetary scientist also ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

In January, the Earth reaches its nearest point to the sun all year and moves slightly ... "Time is kind of moving in the way that we expect it to now," Shaw said. "So things are looking up." ...

We view the night sky from a moving platform. Earth orbits the sun at a different rate than any other planet. When Mercury and Earth are at their closest, Mercury appears to go backward ...