Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and ...

However, gravitational forces diminish with distance. That is, the destruction of distant stars or planets outside our solar system or galaxy would have an unnoticeable effect on earth.

All the planets in our solar system, except Mercury and Earth, will move into a large arc that just fits into your eye's field of view. "That means we can just about see all planets without ...

‘By observing the motion of other objects in the ... As Dr Bloomer put it: ‘Directly discovering a “Planet Nine” in our solar system might start with an astronomer noticing (or being ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to Venus, that wouldn't be the case. Not every planet has a moon — so ...

Our planet is hurtling at some ... The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are so insignificant that we can consider the entire mass a point ...