You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky ... Finally, during the last week of February, Mercury and Saturn will pass each other, low in the western evening twilight.

But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some craters on its surface that never see sunlight. It also has the most extreme temperatures of ...

Up to seven planets are set to align in the night sky over the UK in January and February - here's when and how to see the rare event.

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...

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