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

Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...

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 ...

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don't appear as 'bright planets'," NASA's Preston Dyches explained in a stargazing video guide. Stock illustration of all the solar system's ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun essentially along a line across the sky in a plane called the ecliptic. For that reason, planets in our Earthly sky always appear somewhere along a ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter ...

While the planets won’t be perfectly aligned, their placement will follow the orbital plane of our solar system. Which planets are parading in January and February? The January planetary ...