Mercury, the planet of communication and thought, began its retrograde in Sagittarius on November 9, spotlighting truth, ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Stargazers have a chance to ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When talking about the planet Uranus, it's easy to crack jokes (ahem) about how its name is ...

In the beginning there were five planets. Our ancestors watched them for millennia knowing they differed from the stationary stars in the heavens — they wandered. They were given names and mythologies ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, may initially look like a bland, blue-green ball. But there's a lot to love about the icy giant, from its 13 rings to its 27 known moons to the fact that it ...

(NewsNation) — Stargazers will have a chance to see Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system, just after midnight EST. The early hours of Nov. 13 will bring an ideal opportunity to ...