Venus and Mercury will meet in the evening sky Friday (May 28) for their closest encounter until Nov. 5, 2033.

Friday, July 4 Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun, standing 26° from our star at 1 A.M. EDT. We’ll ...

Catch Mercury shining close to Leo's brightest star Regulus on Wednesday (Aug. 3). The due will be close enough to view with a telescope.

Shining at magnitude 1.1, it should look roughly as bright as Spica, albeit much redder. That's because Spica is a younger, hot blue-white star; Antares is an older, cool red giant start in the ...

Through a telescope, you’ll also be able to see that Mercury’s 6”-wide disk is 78 percent lit. About 13° above Mercury is Castor, Gemini’s alpha star and one of the Twins’ two heads.

It's at greatest elongation, 18-degrees to the west of the sun, on Oct. 16. With Mercury shining at a very bright magnitude of -0.6 (matching Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky), the ...

Mercury should be easy to see from about 45 minutes after sunset but only for 30 minutes before it sinks into the horizon's haze. When And Where To See The Northern Lights This Weekend ...

July’s Mercury retrograde will be in the sign of Leo, but depending on your zodiac sign, we all have something a little different to expect.

After one flyby in 2022 and 2023 each, the probe then made close approaches to Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024 and Dec. 1, 2024. The probe's next Mercury flyby will occur on Jan. 8, 2025. Advertisement ...