Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

As the year gets underway, something important happens quietly in space while life on Earth carries on as usual. Our planet reaches the point in its y.

Every January, Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun, known as perihelion. Yet, it’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

Christmas Day will be quite warm across the U.S. only days after the winter solstice. Here is an explanation of why winter ...

The New Year would begin with our planet being closest to the sun, raising queries about the cold weather and no heat despite ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

For those north of the equator, the solstice on Sunday, Dec. 21, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. During the winter solstice, the sun will be at its lowest noontime point in the ...

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. The comet is not a ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid—"2025 XM"—that is expected to pass within 295,000 miles of Earth today, December 9, according to data from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The visiting ...