A traveller’s guide to the best places to be when the light goes out - The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist season

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at our slowest pace in orbit, slightly less than 18 miles per second (29 kilometers per second) compared to just over 19 at perihelion.

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that bring scientists closer to solving one of the Sun’s biggest mysteries: how the solar wind is born.

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s only about a 3.3% difference.

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 melt lead. During the day, rocks on the surface will melt, and Earth will be a lava world. On top of that, our planet will lose its atmosphere to space when it gets this hot as well.

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four Earth-orbiting satellites with the goal of studying how the Sun’s ...

Visualize the science behind the glow of the northern lights, as it travels from the Sun to the Earth.

While high or low clouds are expected in various areas across Michigan overnight July 10, forecasters expect the buck moon to remain visible in most regions in the early part of the night, per the weather service. No, the buck moon is not a supermoon.

The Buck Moon is set to be the seventh full moon of 2025, coming hot on the heels of last month's eye-catching Strawberry Moon which enthralled Scots stargazers as it bathed in a reddish hue against the night sky.

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.

We are currently just over 94 million miles away from the sun (94,506,364 mi). The key is that the Earth is tilted, and the Northern Hemisphere is facing the sun.