Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

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Earth reaches perihelion this morning at 8 A.M. EST, when our planet’s not-quite-circular orbit brings us to our closest point to the Sun for the year. On this day, we are just 91.4 million ...

This month offers incredible views of six planets, including Venus-Saturn conjunction. See the dates for all of 2025's ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

The next new moon will occur on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 7:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us.

On 24 December, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe whizzed through the Sun’s atmosphere ... and on 1 January it reported back to Earth that its scientific instruments had successfully collected ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan.

January's Wolf Moon was the highest hanging moon of 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere and stays in the sky longer than other ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

Within the next few days, the Earth's orbit will slow enough for the sunrise to "catch up," with the sun rising slightly earlier and setting slightly later every day as the Northern Hemisphere ...

THE best time to view the rare ‘planet parade’ will be tonight, according to experts. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn ...