The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...
Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...
Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...
Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...
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 ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...