Compare that to the most powerful hurricanes on Earth, with wind speeds up to 200 mph and a diameter of over 1,000 miles. Another massive storm on Jupiter is the Little Red Spot, roughly half the ...

One Earth compared to the size of the sun. ESA & NASA. Coronal holes are common; there is "nothing unusual here," Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and the deputy director of the National Center ...

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles ...

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

The sun has developed a massive “hole” 20 times larger than Earth, marking the second such occurrence in a week. The coronal hole is unleashing solar winds of 2.9 million km/h toward Earth ...

Two huge coronal holes have appeared on the sun this month, spewing 1.8 million mph solar winds towards the Earth. Here's what they are, how they form and their impact on our planet.

Facts about our Sun, including its distance from Earth, what the Sun is made of, and how long it would take to drive there (hint: a long time!).

The claim: The sun and the moon are the same size and the same distance from Earth. A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar ...

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.

The newfound exoplanet, named SPECULOOS-3 b, is a rocky planet roughly 55 light-years from Earth.It zips around its host star every 17 hours, but days and nights on the planet are endless ...