This is known as the `Perihelion`, for Earth it is 147,098,290 km or 91,402,641 miles
The sun. Next closest is proxima centuri.
The closest star to earth is our sun. the sun is 149,476,000 km away from Earth.
The Earths orbital distance from the sun is 147,098,290km (91,402,641 miles) at its closest (Perihelion).
Based on their average distance from the sun, the Earth is the nearest.
Approximately 147.1 million kilometers.
alpha centauri
The Sun is nearest star to Earth. Its light takes about 8 min. 20.33 sec. to reach to Earth. Its mine the distance of the Sun is near about 150 million km.
At its closest, Pluto is around 4,436,824,613 km from the sun. Taking off the earth to sun distance of 150 million km, the closest that Pluto will get to earth is around 4,286,800,000km
the sun is earth's nearest star!
The nearest star to Earth is the sun, at a distance of 0.000016 light years from Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away.
Actually it varies slightly. Sometimes the Earth is nearer the Sun, sometimes it is farther away. In January Earth is nearest to the Sun.
Varying from the the distance from the Earth to the Moon + the distance from the sun to the earth + the distance from mercury to the sun, to the distance from the earth to the sun - the distance from mercury to the sun - the distance from the earth to the moon