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

The search for a hidden giant lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System has captivated astronomers for decades. A new ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Even though the moon, and planets of our solar system are all separated ... though its relative dimness (magnitude 7.9) will render it invisible to the unaided eye. A telescope or powerful ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

This Friday right before sunrise, the moon, Venus and Saturn will create a smiley face in the eastern horizon for a brief ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Venus and Saturn will align with a crescent moon to create the illusion of a smiley face in the sky on the morning of April ...

which can illuminate regions that are otherwise hidden by our planet’s shadow. The Moon will pass 4° north of Mercury at 9 P.M. EDT this evening. To the right of the Moon is 1st-magnitude ...