Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation, marking the point where it is farthest from the Sun in the evening sky.

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

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.

Mercury now shines at magnitude 0 in Gemini and is visible in the western sky for about an hour and a half after sunset. The ...

The clarity of Lake Tahoe — the famed alpine lake on California’s border with Nevada, whose spectacular scenery draws ...

NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas ...

Six planets in the solar system will be visible in the earth sky this June. According to the Farmers' Almanac , Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Neptune will be visible throughout June.

Because HD 100453 has a higher mass than the sun, it has a warmer, planet-forming disk around it. This causes molecules in the disk, including methanol, to exist as gas at larger distances from ...