Our Sun, that steady burning ball of gas that has faithfully illuminated Earth for billions of years, is slowly but relentlessly growing brighter. This might sound like good news, but it's actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the side of the Sun facing Earth, a giant coronal hole appeared in the shape of an enormous love heart, many times the size of ...

From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or November at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, and 79 years. During these events, Earth and the Moon ...

Thanks to the sheer mass of Jupiter and fellow gas giant Saturn, the Solar System barycenter is rarely in the center of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds Earth-sun distance helps drive the Pacific cold tongue, a key player in El Niño and global weather. (CREDIT: Wikimedia ...

The sun has certainly woken up! It has fired off not one but two powerful X2.5 solar flares within just 7 hours.

For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The earth’s journey around the Sun is not a perfect circle. Instead, our planet follows a slightly oval-shaped path called an ellipse, meaning our distance from the Sun changes ...

From this past July to our upcoming January, Earth gets nearly 2 million miles closer to the sun. At the same time, average highs in Colorado Springs and Pueblo go from 86 and 93 degrees to 45 and 48 ...

The northern lights may be visible this weekend after a flurry of activity on the sun, with an X-class solar flare and ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most important weather swings. That Pacific “cold tongue” helps steer the El ...