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

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

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

turning this into a planetary parade of all seven planets in our solar system other than Earth. It will be difficult to see them all since Saturn, Mercury and Neptune will be quite close to the ...

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 ...

This alignment causes the apparent paths of the other planets to trace a consistent ... and seven of our solar system's planets will be visible all at once just after sunset.

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

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

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

In comparison, the fastest wind ever measured in the Solar System was found on ... weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own System," adds Fei Yan, a co-author of the study ...

But there are other, far less contentious ... It is not just within our Solar System that planet alignments are useful. Astronomers use alignments to probe many different aspects of the Universe ...