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Topline There’ s six-planet parade on Monday, Aug. 25, just before dawn. Saturn, Jupiter and bright Venus will dominate the scene, with Mercury putting in a fleeting appearance low in the east. Uranus and Neptune will be in the sky, but remain invisible without binoculars or a small telescope. However, time is short, with Mercury rapidly sinking into the suns’ …

After a promising rookie season in 2024, Fever guard Caitlin Clark has endured a year to forget in 2025. While still the most famous women’s basketball player in the world, Clark has barely played due to a litany of injuries. On Wednesday—as Indiana fans coped with a season-ending injury to guard Sophie Cunningham—the Fever faithful received still more Clark injury …

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Mercury will be farthest from the sun on Tuesday (Aug. 19), granting early risers a perfect opportunity to spot the fleet-footed world somewhat separated from the glare of our parent star. Mercury treads such a tight orbit around the sun that it never strays far from the horizon. This makes it one of the trickiest planets to see, especially compared …

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Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), a legendary writer of science and science fiction, once noted in “The Solar System and Back,” that the planet Mercury is rarely visible when it is truly dark. “I suspect, in fact,” he observed, “that many people today (when the horizon is generally much dirtier and the sky much hazier with the glare of artificial light than …

Topline The “planet parade” happening all week will enter its most photogenic phase on Tuesday, Aug. 19, as Mercury becomes more prominent and the moon wanes to a slim crescent. All this week, four planets are visible to the naked eye an hour before sunrise. Uranus and Neptune will also be in the sky, though both require a telescope to …

What do many baked goods and the planet Mercury have in common? They shrink as they cool. Evidence suggests that since it formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Mercury has continuously contracted as it has lost heat. And somewhat like a fresh-baked cookie or cheesecake, Mercury also cracks as it cools: Thrust faults cut through the planet’s rocky surface to …

PHOENIX – An 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly throwing a sex toy in the crowd during a Phoenix Mercury WNBA game this week, authorities said. Kaden Lopez is accused of throwing the object during Tuesday night’s game between the Mercury and Connecticut Sun at PHX Arena. The sex toy, described as “a green dildo” in court documents, hit a …

You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in retrograde.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of Chiron before – and I’m a professional astronomer. So what is Chiron, and what does it mean to be in retrograde? The short answer is that Chiron is an asteroid-slash-comet orbiting somewhere …