Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

Is the Best Time to Spot Mercury . In the early morning, Mercury will rise before the Sun and hang low in the east close to ...

The research was published in the journal Science Advances. This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

An artistic rendering of an exoplanet in a tight orbit, followed by a dusty, comet-like tail of debris. Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each ...

Mercury and Venus retrograde, two of the many celestial events some believe can cause turmoil, ended this month.

Mercury will be below and to the left of ... objects in our solar system are constantly in motion in their orbit around the sun. While gazing at this celestial lineup, take a peek at the time ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed hot gas forming a ring around the star and an expanding cloud of cooler dust, evidence of the aftermath.