Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

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

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Around the time of your romantic dinner, head outside and look to the southwest to spot the super brilliant planet in the night sky ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

These rocky bits eventually coalesced to form the terrestrial planets. However, at a distance of around 4 astronomical units from the Sun (AU; 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth distance of 93 million ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...

2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade ... This applies regardless of location, so no matter where you are, everything's happening at around the same time.