Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be ... Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all claimed that moniker. But then some pesky ...

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 ...

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

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 ...

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System ... plane like the eight planets.

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away from our own Earth ... diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in 2009, has piqued scientists’ curiosity because of ...

According to a pre-print research paper, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, an object 8 times ... orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on ...