Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...

We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: Researchers from NIT Rourkela, in collaboration with scientists from UAE University and Sun Yat-sen ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

People are marking the start of the winter and summer solstices across the globe. North of the equator, celebrations welcome ...

Its fall – or autumnal — equinox can land between Sept. 21 and 24. On the equator, the sun will be directly overhead at noon. Equinoxes are the only time when both the north and south poles are lit by ...

Summer officially begins Friday, June 20, at 10:41 p.m. Eastern time. That’s the precise moment of the summer solstice — making for the longest, brightest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

The collage above shows the Sun’s south pole as recorded on 16–17 March 2025, when Solar Orbiter was viewing the Sun from an angle of 15° below the solar equator. The images shown above were taken by ...

The Sun Belt ranks among college football's most wide-open conferences for the 2025 season. James Madison is Athlon's preseason pick to win the conference, with Georgia Southern and Old Dominion a ...

They are especially thick when Mars is farthest from the Sun, a period called aphelion. The band of clouds that forms across the planet’s equator at this time of year is called the aphelion cloud belt ...