Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Business Insider wanted to illustrate the scale of the Earth-moon distance, and all of the fascinating stuff in between, so we consulted dozens of sources to create the interactive graphic below.

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

The Sun is about 100 times wider than the Earth and the Earth could fit into the Sun over one million times. It would take 500 years for the fastest person on Earth to run the distance from the ...

All asteroids orbit the sun, and some have orbital paths that ... “The uncertainty we have is much bigger than the distance between the Earth and the moon,” he said. If it does strike Earth ...

Because the Earth is always slowly spinning, everywhere on Earth turns in and out of the light from the Sun, moving between day and night. Image caption, The part of the Earth facing the Sun is ...

Mercury measures at almost half of one astronomical unit between the sun and Earth (the distance between Earth and the sun being one astronomical unit), NASA stated. Meanwhile, Saturn is 9.5 ...

There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in ...

Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

Mercury is almost half of one astronomical unit between the sun and Earth (the distance between Earth and the sun being one astronomical unit). The first planet from the sun is also one-third the ...