Astronomer Anura C. Perera led the world’s first-ever celebration of Earth’s ‘birthday’ on Jan 4, commemorating the day the planet reached its closest point to the Sun, known as Perihelion Day. The ...

The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical ... "They were already talking about the difference between the solar day and the ideal day, the average value of that," said Bloomer.

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Atlantic, snow storms will prevent many stargazers from catching the Snow Moon. Talk about irony. In the Northern Hemisphere, ...

As New Year’s Day fades, a young moon hangs in the southwest near Venus and Mars. And as the sun sets on the last day of ...

Unfortunately, for those living north of the equator, the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the comet was fleeting, lasting only for about a week, centered on the day of perihelion. For much of its ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

It’s January 4, 2025, apparently a day for coincidences. One half of the coincidence was a Facebook note on the term “perihelion”—a fancy word for the time the Earth’s orbit ...

A diary entry on his 28th birthday, Feb. 22, 1760, reveals a busy day installing a fence around the peach orchard at Mount Vernon, his home in Virginia. As Alexis Coe, a presidential historian and ...

Actor Prateik Babbar tied the knot with his longtime partner Priya Banerjee in an intimate ceremony on Valentine’s Day 2025. Check out the pictures from their dreamy wedding ...