The moon's orbit isn't a perfect circle. Instead, it's more stretched out, kind of like an oval, which means its distance from Earth varies by about 30,000 miles (48,000 km). The surface of the moon ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

The Planet Parade of 2025 is a truly extraordinary celestial event that has stargazers excited. From January 21 to mid-February, six planets will align in the sky: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Ah, Earth. We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

Venus was the goddess of beauty in ancient Rome and her brightly shining planetary namesake lives up to that hype. When Venus is in the evening sky, you notice her. When she is in the predawn sky, you ...

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BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and imagined yourself zooming past stars as if you were an astronaut? If so, you’re definitely not alone. No matter how old you are, outer space is a place ...

It's easy to take Earth for granted, since we see it every day. It becomes — it is — part of life's background. But when you see the world through the eyes of science, nothing is mundane. We live on ...