Mercury is farthest from the sun in Earth's morning sky on Aug. 19. Mercury will be farthest from the sun on Tuesday (Aug. 19 ...

Alongside the planets will be a nearly-full 'sturgeon moon' that will reach peak illumination on August 9. The planet parade will also be followed by the Perseid meteor shower, which will peak on the ...

Mercury passes 1.2° north of Regulus at 6 A.M. EDT; the pair is visible in the east just before sunrise, but it might be a ...

Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury - a tiny black dot - as it ...

Mercury will be close to Regulus embedded among the stars of the constellation Leo. Look to the east slightly ahead of dawn on Sept. 2 to catch a fleeting glimpse of fleet-footed Mercury alongside the ...

This article first appeared on Wired.com. On August 10, six planets — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets — Mercury, ...

This period where Mercury is farthest from the sun, called greatest elongation, happens twice every 116 days, or about every four months.