Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to ...

Sunspot region 4114 has fired off its strongest blast yet — an X1.2-class solar flare that erupted on June 17, triggering ...

Sunspot region 4114 has unleashed its most powerful solar flare yet — an X1.9 class that erupted late June 19, triggering ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you ...

The sun has released several powerful M- and X-class solar flares over the past few days, resulting in radio blackouts around the world.

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

Could the Sun Fry Earth with a Superflare? Stars like the sun might erupt with extreme explosions about once per century By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings ...