There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...

There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus ... The planets can never fully line up exactly like you see in pictures, but they can all be on the same side of the sun and ...

A UVic doctoral candidate led a new study that offers a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, findings ...

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, because they all originally formed from the same disc of debris around the sun. The line the sun traces across the ...