Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The time that planets take to ...

Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in ...

Lars von Trier’s 2011 sci-fi drama Melancholia (streaming now on Peacock) is two stories at once. On one hand, it is about the very personal struggle inherent in being a person; how we balance our ...

It's prom season -- for the planets. Every couple of years, give or take, planets get together in the night sky in such a way that they seem to be aligned with each other. They seem to be, really -- ...

A team of planet hunters today announced a discovery that will help researchers better understand planet migration and how planets’ gravitational pulls influence each other. The discovery was ...

If you’d like to see all the planets of our solar system, this is a good week to do so. Step outside at dusk and you’ll notice the most obvious of planets in the southwestern sky. I’m referring, of ...

In the last week of May, a rendezvous of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in evening twilight made the news as the “Dance of the Planets.” This month, a predawn planetary triune is in the offing.

Planetary alignment, or conjunction, refers to the apparent close grouping of planets in the night sky as viewed from Earth, not necessarily a perfect linear alignment in space. These alignments occur ...