Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will shine bright enough for the naked eye to see, and you can catch glimpses of Uranus and Neptune with binoculars or a telescope.

A rare full seven-planet alignment will be visible in the early night sky between Feb. 22 and 28. We have the tips you need ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The planet, if it is indeed a planet, is one of the most massive ever detected around a small star. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting ... Mars is to the sun, but since its star ...

This technique involves measuring the subtle motion of a star as it is tugged by the gravity of an orbiting planet ... of the mass of the sun. Not only is Gaia-4b the first planet ever detected ...

The eight major planets in our Solar System orbit the sun on the same flat plane but at vastly different speeds. Mercury, being the closest to the sun, completes an orbit in only 88 days ...

creating a reaction similar to the one that powers the sun. Grainy series of satellite images taken over the central Chinese city of Mianyang show a large X-shaped building Credit: Planet Lab ...

But in 2003, Hubble detected a massive planet orbiting an ancient star in the M4 globular cluster, which is about 5,600 light-years distant in the Milky Way. Globular clusters are extremely old ...

Stargazing Brits will have the rare chance to witness a remarkable alignment of the planets from tonight. Ice planet Uranus and gas giant Neptune will also be able to be viewed through a telescope ...

Saturn may be difficult to see since it will be near the sun, according to StarWalk. It's not especially remarkable for a few planets to line up in the sky, but the sight of four or five brilliant ...

you’d have to include the so-called dwarf planets, in which case there may be thousands orbiting the sun alone. Planets are a mess. Or perhaps more to the point, our way of thinking about them is.