An artist’s impression of a small, rocky interstellar object hurtling from the upper right toward the inner solar system. The orbits of the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are ...

In general, the best time to view the planet parade will be after Jan. 21, and before Feb. 21. The very best nights will be ...

Venus rotates backward compared to its orbit around the Sun (a phenomenon known as retrograde motion). On the other hand, Uranus not only rotates in a westward direction (opposite to most planets ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed 21 close flybys around the sun. However ... "with the billions and billions of other planets that may or may not be like our own ...

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA's Voyager mission completed humankind's first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of ... 84-year-long trek around the Sun.

The orbits of the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are fully visible, drawn as teal concentric circles around the bright ball of the sun at the center.

like those envisioned in the direct search for exoplanets around bright stars. If astronomers want to look at anything just next to the Sun — or any other star, for that matter — they face a ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around ... to the sun right at sunset ...

On December 7, the “king of planets” will line up with the Earth and sun in an event known as opposition ... via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Right around the time Jupiter reaches opposition ...

In billions of years, our Sun will expand into ... Earth-like photosynthesis. Planets in this zone would need to orbit close to the white dwarf, similar to planets around red dwarf stars like ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and ...

Since the 1990s, a series of bollards along the Greenbelt and in Julia Davis Park have presented information about the planets, including Pluto. An upgraded version, scheduled to come in spring ...