Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

The next time Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will all be in the night sky at the same time will be October 2028.

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Uranus, our side-spinning planet of rebellion, liberation, and chaos with a capital C, swaps the placid materialist pastures ...

Mercury will be visible west of the sunset until July 6. Venus, Mars, Saturn and Neptune will be visible throughout June. Six planets in the solar system will be visible in the earth sky this June.

Because of the Earth’s size, some say it won’t be completely devoured, as Mercury and Venus are likely to be. However, the Sun will still make the Earth unlivable.

The solar system has eight planets overall – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and Earth is the third planet from the sun ...

This month, Venus, Mars and Jupiter are visible to the naked eye. A faint Saturn and Mercury are close to the horizon, making them hard to spot.

Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will join them, adding a seventh planet to the planetary parade.

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...