Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an inferior conjunction.

April 22, Hampton Roads Transit will offer free fares on bus, light rail, ferry, Paratransit and OnDemand ridesharing services. HRT will also host community cleanups supported by volunteers interested ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mercury only comes between Earth and the Sun about 13 times every century. The last time this happened was in 2006. This rare event will occur again this Monday ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

The descriptor is simply how astronomers differentiate the event from a superior conjunction, which is when Venus and Earth are on opposite sides during the transit. While Venus passes between the ...

This celestial event happens roughly every 19 months due to the differences in Venus’s and Earth’s orbits. Can I see Venus’s transit with the naked eye? No, the event is nearly impossible to observe ...