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

Uranus and Neptune are there too, technically, but they don't appear as 'bright planets'," NASA's Preston Dyches explained in a stargazing video guide. Stock illustration of all the solar system's ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.