The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

This week, stargazers can observe the solar system's largest and smallest planets, Jupiter and Mercury, converging in the ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty. As we travel around the ...

Hold tight, the solar system is going to get bumpy in a few months. Mercury retrograde is on its way. Maybe you've heard people lament over the astrological phenomenon, blaming their woes on the ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into space ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research.