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

If you needed a sign from the cosmos, the planets are in fact aligning for you this evening. ValleyCentral spoke to Christian Hernandez, Program Specialist at UTRGV for the Center of Excellence in ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

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

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven ...

Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...