To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Two meteorites discovered in the Sahara Desert could potentially be fragments of Mercury that broke off during a collision in ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

New research suggests that Mercury's crust is shifting and twisting in unexpected ways thanks to the force of the Sun.