Since Pluto is located so far from the sun, it takes around 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun. Pluto's orbit around the sun is not only a very long journey, it's also elliptical, resembling a ...

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.

'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 is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach its closest point to the sun is in the year 26186. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth ...

Astronomers have directly observed a free-floating planet, comparable in mass to Earth, roaming the Milky Way. Discovered via gravitational microlensing due to its brief light curve, this rogue world ...