The average distance between the Earth and Sun measured using trigonometry is 93 million miles, not 3,000 miles as claimed in a viral post online. The author of the post claims that measuring with a ...

AUSTIN -- -- AUSTIN -- In the vastness of space, how far is far? That question has simmered in G. Fritz Benedict's mind since he was 8, when a family friend took him into the back yard of his home and ...

TULSA, Okla. — In honor of the Summer Solstice, our Weather Experiment Wednesday took us to the roof of Discovery Lab where Director of Education Chip Lindsey showed us how to measure the sun’s ...

On a drizzling day in May 1673, deep in the dense rainforest of French Guiana, a scientist died. Known to historians only by his first name, Meurisse, he may have been cut down by disease or perhaps a ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Happy Perihelion Day! This little-known day marks the time when Earth's orbit is closest to the sun, with a mere 91,527,976 miles of separation between the two planets. If Earth is ...