The sun’s current activity, solar flares, and sunspots may be tied to its age. Image source: NSO/AURA/NSF. Because of the Earth’s size, some say it won’t be completely devoured, as Mercury ...

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

Mercury, which orbits the sun every 88 days, reaches its highest altitude in the evening sky on March 8. Although Mercury has been rising as Venus sinks, both will now disappear from the evening sky.

The next time Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will all be in the night sky at the same time will be October 2028.

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

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

Mercury retrograde is, more or less, an optical illusion. Yet it holds great weight in astrology. ... The planets that fall inside Earth's orbit around the Sun – Mercury and Venus ...