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

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

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

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet will reach its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion. By Katrina Miller This article was ...