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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see. The ...

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

Florian said the planetary parade should be visible throughout Alberta until the end of February, with the last Earth-visible ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in ...

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 ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

While this parade of planets look to our eyes to be huddled in the evening sky, they are of course spread out across a vast chasm of space across the solar system, separated from each other by ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.