If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars ... The planet parade occurs when the planets' positions in their elliptical orbit around the sun line make them seem like they are close in the sky. As per Conafay, "It ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

SOME astronomical events we see often, like shooting stars, but these are only a fraction of the dazzling celestial wonders occurring over the vast expanse of time. However, there are still four ...

"The simplest definition [of a moon] would be an object that is in an orbit around a larger ... which can be much smaller and have larger, more elliptical orbits around their host planets ...