For most of January, four of the eight planets in our solar system (sorry, Pluto) will be visible if the sky is clear enough ...

A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will make its closest approach to Mercury on 8 January 2025. The spacecraft will fly just ...

MARS, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Venus are set to align in the sky next week in a six-strong ‘planetary parade’. All the planets in our solar system, except Mercury and ...

In late February, Mercury joins the planet parade in the early evening sky as Saturn departs. You will only have a few weeks to spot the planet closest to the sun as Mercury will be lost in the ...

Mercury will make its appearance and the parade will increase to seven planets. This will be best viewed right at sunset and will be more difficult to see while the sun is still on the horizon.

Four bright planets are conveniently ... As January opens, Mercury is a -0.2-magnitude "morning star" rising 1.5 hours before the sun. In mid-twilight on the 1st, look 12 degrees to the lower ...

Happy New Year and happy perihelion day! Earth is closest to the sun today at just 91,406,000 miles (1.55 million miles ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any spacecraft, orbiting 10 times closer than the planet ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...