A stunning cosmic getaway is in store for residents of the United States on Friday evening as seven planets will align in a spectacular display — dubbed a planet parade — that can be seen ...

Every planet in our solar system will be visible. On Friday, February 28, seven planets will align in the night sky. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars will be visible to the naked eye, while ...

Narrator: As the solar system grew, four rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of ...

Though all the eight major planets of the Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same flat plane, they do it at different speeds. The planet closest to the Sun is Mercury and it takes 88 days ...

The detection of CO 2 offers clues as to how distant planets form, with the observations providing strong evidence that these four giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn ...

"We reference the planets as symbols to better understand our lives," PEOPLE's resident astrologer Kyle Thomas says Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment.

Narrator: Further from the Sun, in the outer reaches of the solar system, we find the gas planets. Much larger than the rocky planets, these cosmic giants are accompanied by numerous moons.

Check them out! In a rare astronomic feat on Friday night, seven planets, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn and Venus, were not only visible simultaneously but also appeared to be ...