The comet runs the risk of being destroyed by its extremely close approach to the Sun in April 2026.

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion. We are slightly nearer to our star and receiving more solar energy than we ...

A celestial outsider known as 3I/ATLAS has made its closest rendezvous with the sun as it continues to rove through our cosmic neighborhood and add to its growing renown. Originating from a completely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The earth’s journey around the Sun is not a perfect circle. Instead, our planet follows a slightly oval-shaped path called an ellipse, meaning our distance from the Sun changes ...

A former assistant police chief in St. Augustine, Anthony Cuthbert, is under investigation by the state attorney’s office following the discovery of financial discrepancies in the St. Augustine Police ...

On its record-breaking pass by the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun than ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was expected to come within 130 million miles of the sun on Oct. 30. For the time being, 3I/ATLAS will remain on the opposite side of the sun from Earth, making it impossible to observe ...