Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation, marking the point where it is farthest from the Sun in the evening sky.

Summer is here, and Mercury goes retrograde from July 17 until August 11 — the retrograde begins after the full moon lunar ...

A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

If it feels like you’ve gone from being self-protective to asserting yourself more loudly and proudly, or you’re swapping ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, which have long been suspected to ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.