Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System, exhibits a uniquely dynamic magnetosphere that, despite its relatively weak intrinsic magnetic field, undergoes rapid and complex interactions with ...

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) —This week, the night sky will provide the opportunity to view up to seven planets in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked ...

There are 8 planets in our solar system. The planets orbit the Sun in elliptical trajectories, and they are all different in size, composition, temperature, and characteristics. The planets can be ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Snapchat Planets, part of the Snapchat Plus Friend Solar System, ranks you in a friend’s top 8 based on your interactions, from Mercury (#1) to Neptune (#8). Each friend has their own solar system ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Meteorites found in the Sahara Desert might be pieces of Mercury that broke off as the result of a collision when the Solar System was still forming. The meteorites had many parallels to the surface ...