When we’re having a positive Venus transit (when an orbiting planet interacts with ... You’re probably (agonizingly) familiar with Mercury retrograde, not just because the trickster planet ...

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

Stargazers are in for a rare celestial treat this week when all the planets in our solar system are set to align on 28 February.

Saturn has 146 moons orbiting it, including Enceladus and Titan. Mercury and Saturn exist in two separate halves of the solar system, divided by the asteroid belt. Mercury is followed by Venus ...

The incidents happen when planets, orbiting around the sun in roughly ... is not the hottest planet in the solar system — Venus is. Mercury is almost half of one astronomical unit between ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...

Seven planets -- Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn and Venus -- will be visible simultaneously ... Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say The ...

Instead they found Barnard b, an exoplanet with half the mass of Venus that orbits twenty times closer to Barnard’s star than Mercury orbits the Sun. Since then, Barnard b's existence has been ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star about 40.7 light-years away from Earth. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting Saturn ... By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless, Earth has one moon, and Mars has two.