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 ...

This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a great planetary alignment. The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in ...

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 ...