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

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

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

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on ... Interestingly, despite being farther from the sun, Venus is actually hotter than Mercury. This is because Venus does have ...

Planets Venus (top), Jupiter (middle), and Mars (bottom ... at the edge of the solar system as tiny disks. All seven worlds and the moon appear strung along a line in Earth’s skies because ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Baker said that there are other astronomical events that may be more interesting than the parade of planets. Baker said Mars ...

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

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... on Mars and providing critical insights into Earth's ...