Planets can be told apart from stars because they shine steadily, rather than twinkling. Saturn will be the lowest planet on the Western horizon and the hardest to spot with the naked eye.

But what’s it like on other planets? There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Getty Another astronomical event is set to take place next month! In the early hours of Monday, June 3, six of the eight planets — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will be ...

For example, the three innermost planets — Mercury, Venus and Earth — align within 3.6 degrees in the sky every 39.6 years. For all of the solar system's eight planets to align as closely ...

Here is what you need to know about how best to get a glimpse of this celestial parade. All eight planets in the solar system orbit the sun at different speeds but on roughly the same plane.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

Josh Dury, 27, managed to snap the extraordinary sight of the solar system's planets aligning from Mendip Hills on Saturday, February 22. Experts believe this might be the first instance where all ...