The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

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 ...

Learn the differences between our Earth, the Sun and the Moon. Then explore how together they create day and night and our different seasons with their orbits.

A sunspot four times the size of the Earth is crossing the sun right now. The mark is so big it can be seen with the naked eye, said one astronomer. But it's very dangerous to look straight at the ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned ...

The sun has developed a massive “hole” 20 times larger than Earth, marking the second such occurrence in a week.

So here's what it comes down to: If you want to show the Earth-sun-moon system, you'd seem to have two options. You could show them at their correct size, but not in their correct locations.

More recently, a YouTube video promoting flat Earth ideas suggested the sun and moon are a similar size. But scientists have a comprehensive understanding of how total solar eclipses occur.

Contrary to a claim on Facebook, the sun is not equal in size to the moon. It is more than 400 times larger in diameter than the moon, and about 400 times further away from the Earth.

The Sun and Moon appear to be of similar angular size in Earth's sky due to a coincidental ratio of their respective sizes and distances from Earth. This near-perfect alignment enables observation ...