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

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Six of the planets in our solar system will line up, in what is sometimes called a 'planetary parade'. They include Venus, ...

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