Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

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

Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

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

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

Mercury is a mystery. It’s the smallest planet in our solar system, the closest to the Sun, and one of the most extreme. Its ...

New research suggests that Mercury's crust is shifting and twisting in unexpected ways thanks to the force of the Sun.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system and the one closest to the Sun, has long baffled scientists with its twisted ...

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