Finally, there is little Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the sun. It's an evening object, but its lowness to the southwest horizon will make it a difficult object to view through much ...

The sun, planets ... this view, which stitches together images from NASA’s Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. The different colors indicate different wavelengths: yellow is near ...

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals ... the course on the red planet, but there was something ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This artist’s view shows the planet Beta Pictoris B ... of a full orbit for the exoplanet. A yellow star marks the location of the ...

Solomon. A radar view of Lavinia Planitia, on Venus, where the planet's rocky outer layer has broken into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow) Scientists have found ...