A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

according to Space.com and other sites that track celestial events. For the best chances, spectators should look at the sky ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

Some of the planets — like ... alignments or any other celestial configuration when a specific event, good or bad, will occur on Earth. In May 2000, the sun, moon and the five naked-eye planets ...

When the sun sets ... after the sun sets, Space.com reported. The planet will be at its greatest elongation from the sun. Elongation is the angular distance between a planet or other solar system ...

It could be two planets, or a planet and the sun. An inferior conjunction of Venus ... just after sunset to glimpse Venus before it sets. It appears as one of the brightest objects in the sky.

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of the sun ... (Five potential planets have also ...