The Sun Will Destroy the Earth One Day, Right? Maybe Not. Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.

Equatorial plane The Sun-Earth-Moon system are constantly at play, but Earth and its lunar satellite are a bit more intimate — with a center of mass, or barycenter, 2,900 miles (4,600 km) from ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet roaming in the Milky Way, orbiting a white dwarf. Around 1.9 times the mass of Earth, this planet likely supported life during its lifetime and orbited a host ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light across space.

The claim: Photos appearing to show clouds behind the sun suggest it orbits the earth, isn't millions of miles away Earth orbits the sun, a star located more than 90 million miles away at the ...

Eruptions from the Sun are causing SpaceX ’s Starlink satellites to fall to Earth “faster than expected”, according to Nasa scientists.

Because the sun being the center of the solar system, the Earth orbiting the sun, that's like elementary school stuff. Well, today I am that weird person.

As it circles the Sun, the asteroid’s trajectory is so strange that scientists believe it could be the very spacecraft that astronauts once called "Snoopy."This video explores the history behind ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a ...

They mapped a nearly 25,000-year journey around the sun. Its closest approach, or perihelion, is about 45 times Earth’s distance from the sun — roughly the same as Pluto’s.