The New Year would begin with our planet being closest to the sun, raising queries about the cold weather and no heat despite the proximity.

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same flat plane? This fascinating phenomenon isn’t a coincidence but a direct result of how our solar system ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

Perihelion, the point in a planet’s orbit where it is closest to the Sun, is a fascinating phenomenon that shapes much of our understanding of planetary motion. While Earth’s proximity to the Sun ...

This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating protoplanetary disc of dust and gas that formed around the young Sun. It ...

Discovered in 1846 through mathematics rather than sight, Neptune was the first planet found by calculation — astronomers noticed Uranus drifting off course and predicted another world’s gravity was ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...