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

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

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

EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian Hernandez, Program Specialist at ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.