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

If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian Hernandez, Program Specialist at UTRGV for the Center of Excellence in ...

(The last time all seven planets aligned was on April 8, 2024, during the total solar eclipse). Aug. 29, 2025: Six planets – ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.