In a humorous take, the solar system is imagined with desi moms giving advice to their planetary children. From Mercury being ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

If the solar system held a poetry slam, each planet would present its unique poetic style. Mercury delivers rapid-fire verses ...

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.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Feb. 28: Seven planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. (The last time all seven planets aligned ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

known as a planetary alignment or planet parade, according to NASA. "While they aren’t once-in-a-lifetime events, planetary parades afford an uncommon opportunity to look up and appreciate our place ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...