The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Four of Earth’s neighbors are about to appear in a planetary alignment. Those four planets — Mercury, Venus, Neptune and ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

With a 30.5-hour orbit and a position about 20 times closer than Mercury’s distance to our sun, BD+05 4868 Ab more resembles a comet than a planet, with a debris tail as much as 5.6 million ...

Because Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, it will naturally fall in the same sign as the Sun or in the sign that proceeds or precedes it. For example, if your Sun is in Scorpio ...

From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets ...

Each zodiac sign's traits are influenced by a ruling planet. Mars shapes Aries' bravery, while Venus gives Taurus a love for ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Four planets should appear aligned in the early morning sky next week, but get ready to see this before the sun rises. On the morning of April 17, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Saturn will take part ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot — but for those with a clear view of the horizon, Mercury can be observed hanging low and bright in the cosmos. This planet parade — when planets ...

"A sample return mission to Mercury is possible with the development ... spacecraft was proposed to travel to the closest planet to the sun. This is because traveling that close to the sun is ...