Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

On April 7th, Mercury, our mischievous planet of the mind and mouth, ends its retrograde. Mercury will station direct at 7:07 ...

The newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is racing toward the Sun, and it may not survive its closest approach.

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

Spring’s cosmic rewind is over! Mercury, the planet of communication, was retrograde between March 15 and April 7.

Mercury retrograde comes to an end on April 7 as Mercury station direct in Pisces, which helps clear the fog that’s been ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The pair rises around 5:30 a.m. local daylight time and sunrise is less than an hour later, so a very clear and transparent sky with a clear eastern horizon is needed to spot the planets. Mercury ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

Mercury retrograde: Several planets appear to 'step back,' and here's what that means. The planets that fall inside Earth's orbit around the Sun – Mercury and Venus – mostly appear to be ...

As the fastest-moving planet in our solar system, Mercury goes retrograde three to four times a year for about three weeks. While planets, Mercury included, do not move backwards, they do slow ...