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

While trivia nights aren’t really my thing, I like to think I know a little about a lot. And, throw a weather-related ...

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of ...

It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 ...

From a distance, the Earth Rover looks much like other field robots. However, upon closer inspection, the weed control method ...

Earth's largest waterfall, Denmark Strait cataract, is located in Arctic waters between Iceland and Greenland and is roughly ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

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 ...

Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was ...

NASA has released remarkable video captured during the Parker Solar Probe's record-breaking 2024 flyby, offering the closest views of the sun ever recorded.

This week in the Boston Globe Weather Mailbag, Globe Weather HQ tackles questions surrounding summer thunderstorm frequency, ...