In the darkness of Mercury’s long night, astronomers have detected a faint sodium glow trailing millions of kilometers behind ...

Mercury is one of the least visited planets in our solar system, but NASA’s MESSENGER mission changed that in 2011. It ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

"We do not have a single sample, in the form of a meteorite, from Mercury and Venus," Yap tells Universe Today. "The building blocks of both planets are derived from the innermost solar system ...

A major portion of a controversial bill at the state Capitol in Sacramento that would have affected an estimated 2 million ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

Venus will partner up with the giant planets Saturn and Neptune to form a line up in the pre-dawn sky on May 8, with ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...