On Feb. 28, seven planets – Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars – will align, creating a beautiful ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Mercury retrograde is happening again. If you believe astrologers and ...

During just one night in late February, they will be joined by Mercury, a rare seven-planet alignment visible in the sky. But such events are not just a spectacle for stargazers – they can also ...

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...

Chennai: If you spotted six planets in a row in Jan, try your luck again at this month-end as Mercury will also be visible. The planet closest to the Sun may be visible from the last week of Feb ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.