But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view.

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary alignment that began in January will continue into February, according to ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...