The Solar System is a fascinating place, with each planet orbiting the Sun at its own unique distance. But how far apart are ...

The sun is around 1,000 times more massive than Jupiter, which is the fifth planet in the solar system, so the effect on the sun as a result of the gas giant is no more than a 40-mile-per-hour ...

Kepler mistakenly believed he had captured Mercury moving in orbit across the sun in May 1607, but he later retracted his report 11 years later and determined he had observed a sunspot group.

The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system's mass. It sheds most of the heat and light that makes life possible on Earth and possibly elsewhere.

On January 3, the Solar Orbiter spotted Mercury passing in front of the Sun. The transit of the small, dark orb puts the scale of our solar system into sharp relief. Mercury is about one-third the ...

The newfound asteroid 2021 PH27 completes one lap around our star every 113 Earth days. That's the shortest orbital period of any known solar system object except the planet Mercury.

It’s just a line-of-sight thing since Mercury is just doing what it always does in orbiting the Sun every 88 days. There are two kinds of elongations—western and eastern—which alternate ...

Of course the sun is the center of the solar system. We’ve known that for more than 600 years.” Like most things in science, it’s not quite that simple. 08/11/2024 | Rating NR From ...

All of the planets of the solar system are visible together in the night sky right now, providing stargazers with a "spectacular" show to end the year. Over the next few days, it is possible to ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries.