Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 4, 2025, the moon is 6 days old, in the waxing crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 43% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The company plans to capture HD imagery of a total lunar eclipse from the moon when Earth will move directly between our neighbor and the sun as it travels along its orbital path. On Earth ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere is unleashing a stream of fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially supercharging auroras on Jan. 31 and ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth ...

The celestial object should be visible through early April, and as it continues on its orbit around the sun, it won’t return to Earth’s vicinity until 2028, Farnocchia said. If 2024 YR4 ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

‘Voters are concerned about the future of New York,’ a Democratic strategist tells the Sun. ‘And they don’t believe that anybody right now but Andrew Cuomo can secure that future.’ With Kennedy comes, ...

NASA has issued an asteroid alert as three near-Earth objects (NEOs), including one ... bringing it closer than the Moon. The other two, 2025 BU3 and 2025 BJ2, will pass at much safer distances ...