February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye. The six planets will be visible until February 9. You'll ...

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

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 25), astrophysicist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project ...

Venus reached a key point in its orbit known as its Greatest Elongation on Thursday night, making it exceptionally visible for the next few evenings. This means it's currently at its brightest and ...

The other, Persephone, is named after Demeter's daughter, whom Venus' Greek equivalent had taken away to the underworld. It is left at a higher orbit and responsible for transmitting the data ...

Venus orbits the sun every 225 days, compared with Earth's 365-day orbit. Those orbital periods combine to create an eight-year cycle in which Venus appears to orbit the sun 13 times, as seen from ...