Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

It takes Jupiter roughly twelve years to orbit the sun and it spends a year of that sojourn in each zodiac sign, exaggerating the qualities and energies of each. Associated with abundance ...

But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

A full moon happens when the moon is directly opposite the sun from our perspective on Earth, fully illuminated by sunlight.