The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as New York and Idaho tonight due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

but Earth is moving through space at astonishing speeds. So, how fast is Earth moving around the sun? The answer might surprise you. Early astronomers once believed Earth was the center of the ...

Never look directly at the Sun or you will damage your eyes. Slide 1 of 3, , This is what the Earth looks like from space. The green and yellow are the countries, the blue is the sea and the white ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Earth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days ... As a result, scientists are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's mysteries.

A huge sun eruption combines with speedy solar wind from a "coronal hole" for a weekend aurora show, experts predict.

CHILD: But why does the Earth travel around the sun instead of travelling in a straight line through space? MADDIE: It’s all to do with gravity. Gravity is the invisible force that pulls objects ...

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide ...

These "massive fireballs" that blow out of the Sun's outermost layer can significantly affect the weather on Earth and satellites in space, said BBC News. A single CME "could weigh up to a ...