Mercury — passes superior conjunction with the sun on Feb. 9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from the sun, Mercury can be seen at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This high-res processed image of the April 8 eclipse shows the Sun’s corona ... saw some stupendous photography—not least ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

Every second the Sun emits million times more energy than the world consumes ... Is it a threat to us, then? One Sky Project is an international collaboration focused on increasing understanding about ...